Christos Armandos Gezos
Christos Armandos Gezos is a Greek author and poet. Gezos was born in Himara, southern Albania, and grew up in Skala Laconia, Greece. For his poetry collection Ανεκπλήρωτοι Φόβοι , he received in 2014 the State Literary Award for Debuting Author. He has also published a novel, ''Η λάσπη.''
Gezos was born in 1988, in Himara, a small coastal city in the Greek minority zone of southern Albania. In 1991 and after the opening of the Greek-Albanian borders that followed the collapse of the communist regime in Albania, his family immigrated to Greece, particularly in Skala, Laconia, a town half an hour south of Sparta. He studied at the National Technical University of Athens as a Surveying Engineer. He currently lives in Athens.
Works
Gezos started writing poems and stories when he was 19 years old. In 2012 he published his first book, a poetry collection called Ανεκπλήρωτοι φόβοι , for which he was awarded in the State Literary Awards of Greece in 2014 as "The Best Debuting Author" of the year. In 2014, he published his first novel Η λάσπη , which was in the short list of the, for the best Greek novel of 2014.