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Panayotis Cacoyannis

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January 2019


Panayotis had a magical childhood growing up in a small seaside town in Cyprus. After two years as an army conscript (at a time when the island suffered first a military coup and then an invasion), he travelled to Britain where he studied law at Oxford and qualified to practise at the Bar. Having then decided (very wisely) that he didn't want to be a lawyer, he also graduated art school, and for many happy years he worked as a painter and sculptor, until a spell of artist's block led to a very short course in creative writing...

For the moment at least, Panayotis has no plans (not to mention the energy or any trace of talent) to embark on a fourth career. His time now exclusively devoted to writing, he lives in London but travels to Cyprus o
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Panayotis Cacoyannis Hi V Kaz,
No, I don't think I do have that distance, so I don't feel able to say which was my best, or even my favourite. Possibly I'd say that "The Ma…more
Hi V Kaz,
No, I don't think I do have that distance, so I don't feel able to say which was my best, or even my favourite. Possibly I'd say that "The Madness of Grief" is the most "accomplished", but if you pushed me to explain what that meant, I'm not sure I could give you an answer. (It could just be wishful thinking - because it's the most recent.)
I do think that the four novels have different strengths (and weaknesses), and also have many things in common. And I do have a fondness for most of my characters, even when they're bad. But I couldn't choose between them. Jane (in The Madness of Grief) may be a stronger, more immediately likeable character than James (in The Dead of August), but I think James's weakness is his strength as a character (if that makes sense).
Maybe with time I'll be able to be more objective. Right now I don't feel I can.
Thanks for asking me an impossible question!
Panayotis
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Panayotis Cacoyannis Hi there!
Well, The Dead of August was partly a satire about art and the art world (The Unmade Gallery, 'Invisible Art', Max's dramatic performance), i…more
Hi there!
Well, The Dead of August was partly a satire about art and the art world (The Unmade Gallery, 'Invisible Art', Max's dramatic performance), in Bowl of Fruit (1907) the protagonist can paint original Picasso paintings, in Polk, Harper & Who Adam is a talented photographer, and there are detailed descriptions of his light-box installations, in The Madness of Grief a genuine Giacometti sculpture goes missing... And in my new novel, in the dystopian world of 2030 all the art has been removed from the museums and galleries, which are now being used... for something else.
I think that probably answers your question!
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FREE: The Madness of Grief

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If anyone is interested, The Madness of Grief will be FREE to download from Amazon on 30 and 31 December 2025. I've included in it a short story from IMAGINING MORE and Other Stories, which is coming out on Sunday! I chose to include "A Clear Conscience" for its relative brevity rather than anything else, but this is what Kirkus Reviews wrote about it:

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“A tortured man but a marvellous writer, complex and yet also entirely simple. As I always say, one is never too young to be reading Kafka, and never too old to be reading him differently.”
Panayotis Cacoyannis, The Madness of Grief

“Secrets always tend towards a domino effect, dividing and mutating and acquiring as they multiply the force of irresistible momentum. One soon learns to live in the reality of the alternative unreality of one’s making.”
Panayotis Cacoyannis, Polk, Harper & Who

“Nothing had changed and yet everything had changed, and it was this invisibility that he found most disturbing, for it depicted by omission all the old freedoms. The vitality hidden in things that may have once got on his nerves had been snuffed out: there were no groups of tourists taking selfies; no men of God yelling fire and brimstone; no demonstrators marching or chaining themselves onto railings; no feverish sounds, or smells of sugared almonds and poisonous hot dogs – unbelievably no smells at all. The loudness of these absences was unendurable; it was all Mr Rubens could do to click his eyes wide open, and cast around for memories that might oppose the deadly dearth.”
Panayotis Cacoyannis, The Coldness of Objects

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