Christos Ikonomou was born in Athens in 1970. He has published three collections of short stories, The Woman on the Rails (2003), Something Will Happen, You'll See (Greek edition 2010; Archipelago Books, 2016), and Good Will Come From the Sea (Greek edition 2014; Archipelago Books 2018). Something Will Happen, You'll See won Greece's prestigious Best Short-Story Collection State Award and became the most reviewed Greek book of 2011. His work has been translated into six languages. Italy’s La Repubblica has called him “the Greek Faulkner.”
ARTICLES FEATURING CHRISTOS
What Voices Carry: On Christos Ikonomou and Yuz Aleshkovsky
Leeore Schnairsohn reflects on the voices of Christos Ikonomou’s “Good Will Come From the Sea” and Yuz Aleshkovsky’s “Nikolai Nikolaevich and Camouflage.”...
The Beginning Is Never Behind Us: On Christos Ikonomou’s “Good Will Come From the Sea”
"Good Will Come From the Sea" is a premonition of a world to come, far more than it is a paternalistic exposé of present-day Greece....
Greek Tragedy, Cellular and Bodied
Christos Ikonomou on the effects of economic devastation....
When Greece Appears
"Something Will Happen, You'll See" is for anyone interested in understanding the very human face of Greece's working class....
