Makis Tsitas

[1] His debut novel God Is My Witness was published in 2013, translated into 12 languages and won the EU Prize for Literature.

Makis Tsiitas[2] born in Yiannitsa and majored in Journalism and cooperated with several radio stations in Thessaloniki.

He has served as Senior Editor for the literary magazine Periplous (1994-2005), and was the Co-publisher and Director of the journal for the book Index (2006-2011).

His literary works have been included in anthologies, published in magazines and newspapers, and translated into several European languages, including German, French, Spanish, English, Hebrew, Albanian, Swedish, Finnish, and Italian.

His lyrics have been put to music by Giorgos Stavrianos, Takis Soukas, and Tatiana Zografou.