Description
Awards
Winner of the 2020 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award
Praise
‘Arathimos’s writing is truthful and moving, elegant and economic. There is real maturity and understanding in these stories. She has a born writer’s talent for creating captivating stories and lives. This collection is a treasure.’ —Christos Tsiolkas
‘These swift, funny, deft, culturally alert and emotionally open stories are a complete joy. In a vivid series of snapshots Michalia Arathimos conjures up whole lives, great vistas of pain, long trajectories of historical and present-day injustices, while somehow keeping pleasure, hope and possibility in the picture.’ —Damien Wilkins
‘I was so moved by these stories: their startling beauty, their witness, their delight in human behaviour and misbehaviour. With a keen sense of language and power, Arathimos cuts away at her characters’ restraints, always seeking out the liberating insight. Apologia is a cleverly crafted, marvellously invigorating collection – tender, generous, and unafraid.’ —Jennifer Mills
About the Author
MICHALIA ARATHIMOS is a Greek writer. She has published work in The Lifted Brow, Westerly, Overland, Landfall and elsewhere, and is Overland’s fiction reviewer. Her novel, Aukati, was published by Makaro Press. She is the Writer in Residence at Randell Cottage and will hold the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship in 2021.
Publication Details
Published as part of the SW Smalls series, celebrating 10 years of Spineless Wonders.
