Dimitris Lyacos

Dimitris Lyacos's Until the Victim Becomes Our Own and his internationally acclaimed trilogy Poena Damni rank among the most innovative achievements in contemporary European writing. Defying genre distinctions and hailed as "total literature," his work has appeared in translation in more than twenty languages and inspired projects across the arts, including contemporary music, theatre, dance, visual art installations, and photography. Moving across prose, poetry, drama, and theory, Lyacos examines violence and ritual, exclusion and scapegoating, the changing forms of the divine, and the transformation of coercion from sacrificial and juridical structures into the cybernetic systems of the present. Corriere della Sera has described him as "the only living Greek in contention for the Nobel Prize in Literature."