Greek

Title of the Novel/Novella/Play	Author’s Name	Water Body Name	Water Body Type	Publication Details	Year of Publiction	Genre	Theme	Summary	English Translation	Translator	Language
H Panaghia h Gorgona	Stratis Myrivilis	Aegean Sea	Sea	Original publisher unknown	1939	Novel	Island life in the Greek island of Lesbos.		The Mermaid Madonna	Abbott Rick
He Fonissa	Alexandros Papadiamantis	Aegean Sea	Sea	Panathenaea	Serialised Jan-Jun 1903, Published 1912	Novel		Story of an old woman murdering young girls as a form of mercy from the destitute life in the island of Skiathos.	The Murderess	Peter Levi in 1983
Vios kai Politeia tou Alexe Zorba	Nikos Kazantzakis	Saronic Gulf	Gulf	Original publisher unknown	1946	Novel		Experiences of a man who goes on a journey to the island of Crete to escape from his bookish life.	Zorba the Greek	Carl Wildman in 1952
Η Φόνισσα	Alexandros Papadiamantis	Skiathos coast / Aegean Sea	Sea	Estia editions	1903	Novel	Women, poverty, patriarchy, island society, death.	A poor elderly woman begins killing female infants because she believes she is freeing them from the misery imposed upon women.	The Murderess	Peter Levi; also translated by George X. Xanthopoulides.	Greek
Η Μεγάλη Χίμαιρα (The Great Chimera)	M. Karagatsis	Aegean Sea	Sea	Estia / later Kedros editions; English edition: Yale University Press.	1936	Novel	Desire, marriage, migration, madness, island identity.	A French woman marries a Greek sea captain and moves to Syros.		–	Greek
Zorba the Greek (title was already in English)	Nikos Kazantzakis	Cretan/ Mediterranean Coast	Aegean Sea / Mediterranean Sea	Simon & Schuster; the first English edition was published in New York in 1953.	1946	Novel	Freedom, masculinity, sexuality, nature, mortality.	Zorba’s relationship with the sea embodies his philosophy of bodily freedom and resistance to social restraint.		Carl Wildman	Greek
Ο Καπετάν Μιχάλης	Nikos Kazantzakis	Cretan Sea	Sea	English publisher: Simon & Schuster / later Faber and Faber editions.	1953	Novel	Nationalism, masculinity, colonial resistance.	Set during the 1889 Cretan uprising against Ottoman rule, the novel follows the fiercely nationalist Captain Michalis as he struggles between his uncompromising desire for Crete’s freedom, his personal passions, loyalty, and ultimately self-sacrifice in the revolutionary struggle	Freedom or Death	Jonathan Griffin	Greek
Life in the Tomb	Stratis Myrivilis	Aegean Sea	Sea	English publisher: Northwestern University Press.	1924	Novel	War, death, nature, masculinity.	A soldier’s letters describe WWI and the violence surrounding the Aegean and Dardanelles.		Peter Bien	Greek
Η Δασκάλα με τα Χρυσά Μάτια	Stratis Myrivilis	Aegean Sea	Sea	English publisher: University of Nebraska Press.	1933	Novel	Female desire, social repression, war, island society.	Lesbos becomes an enclosed island environment in which female sexuality and social morality clash.	The Schoolmistress with the Golden Eyes	Philip Sherrard	Greek
Ο Αρχαιολόγος (The Archeologist)	Andreas Karkavitsas	Mediterranean/ Greek Coastal worlds	Sea	Estia editions.	1904	Novel	Nationalism, modernity, archaeology, cultural identity.	Novel follows Aristodimos Evmoropoulos, an obsessive admirer of ancient Greece who excavates his land in search of archaeological remains and attempts to restore his family’s ancient glory, while his brother Dimitrakis represents a more practical, forward-looking vision of Greece		–	Greek
Η Γοργόνα (The Mermaid)	Andreas Karkavitsas	Aegean Sea	Sea	Estia editions.	1895	Novella	Myth, femininity, monstrosity, maritime folklore.	A sailor encounters a sea-monster/mermaid figure associated with Thessaloniki and Alexander the Great.		–	Greek
Το καλό θα ’ρθει από τη θάλασσα	Christos Ikonomou	Aegean Sea	Sea	English publisher: Archipelago Books (2018); some bibliographic records list Steerforth Press for the English edition	2014	Novel	Poverty, precarity, working-class life, coastal communities.	Four interconnected stories set on an unnamed Aegean island follow impoverished locals and migrants struggling with unemployment, violence, loss and the Greek economic crisis while clinging to fragile hopes of renewal	Good Will Come from the Sea	Karen Emmerich	Greek
Κάτι θα γίνει, θα δεις	Christos Ikonomou	Coastal Athens/ Piraeus	Aegean Sea	English publisher: Archipelago Books (2016).	2010	Short Story Collection	Working-class marginalisation, migration, economic crisis.	Sixteen interconnected stories portray laid-off workers, families and other working-class residents of the Athens–Piraeus industrial districts confronting poverty, homelessness, fear and social disintegration while searching for some possibility of hope.	Something Will Happen, You’ll See	Karen Emmerich	Greek
Το τυφλό γουρούνι στη Δεύτερη οδό	Soti Triantafyllou	Piraeus/ Mediterranean	Sea	Patakis / Greek editions.	2025	Novel	Migration, diaspora, family, maritime movement.	Drawing on the memoirs of Greek-American communist Lee Phillips (born Ilias Filippopoulos), the novel traces his journey from his emigration to America in 1918 through the Depression, communism and the Cold War to his move to Moscow in 1961.	The Blind Pig on the Second Street		Greek