Maria Sevastiadou, who came from Patras, studied classical philology at the National and Kapodistrian University in Athens, where she did not receive a master’s degree in linguistics, and has lived in Athens ever since. Since 2008 he has been working as an editor in major publishing houses. Her works were included in two poetic anthologies (“Modern Greek Creators” and “Diary of the Holy Scriptures”), and the poem “Essetai Imar” was included in the book “Patra: The Imprisoned City?”.

He continues to “turn on-write”, “rewrite poems” and “plot verses” in bubbles of expedient imagination, with constructs that often self-undo absolute erasure and opt for total reset. In an atmosphere of expression that he calls “poetic prose”, he explores prose in thirteen wandering stories, an ambitious and innovative project addressed to “children of all ages”. A fresh note with a touch of children’s adult literature called “Stories of the researcher Nina Sigma.” Published by Kedros Publishing.

Because I read to wake up, not to sleep, lately I’ve been accompanied by a “transcendental” reading of Oliver Sacks’ The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, taming daydreaming.

The life and work of the lyricist Anacreon inspired aristocratic amateur musicians to form the Anacreon Society in 18th century England. In 1814, the Americans combined the melody of the club anthem, which was called “To the Risen One in Heaven”, with the lyrics of the poem “Starfish”, “christening” the US national anthem.

“On the Road” by Jack Kerouac.

An irresistible desire to plunge into fragrant pages.

I felt guilty about books that theoretically I should have liked but didn’t. Now I have come to terms with them.

Joint authenticity of figurative language.

“On Blindness” José Saramago.

From draft years with books. They cultivated the subsoil: they prepared the imagination to plow my fertile soil and make it bear fruit.

The stories in the book are allegories and fables with a touch of a fairy tale and the color of adult childhood.