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He has published until now 21 books (novels, short stories, essays, reviews, aphorisms, literary dictionaries, scientific treatises and textbooks). He also has translated 63 books from eight foreign languages (English, German, French, Italian,
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The following versions of his name also occur in other languages: Demosthenes
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the subjects of history of human sexuality, sexual semiotics in art and animal behaviour. Until 2017 he worked as literary critic for the Athens daily '
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A jednak, translator: Dorota Jędraś, nowogreckablog.wordpress.com, 2016
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La Nostalgie des Dragons, translator: Caroline Nicolas, Actes Sud, 2004
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Nostalgia demonilor, translator: Elena Lazar, Editura Omonia, 2001
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Poussière d’ étoiles, translator: Jasmine Pipart, Hatier, 1994
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Nostalgija zmajeva, translator: Gaga Rosić, Prosveta, 2003
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