{"id":6215,"date":"2025-11-11T14:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/?post_type=team&#038;p=6215"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:19:32","slug":"kostas-kaltsas","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/authors\/kostas-kaltsas\/","title":{"rendered":"Kostas Kaltsas"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6215\" class=\"elementor elementor-6215 elementor-5658\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e30efd2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e30efd2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-71da41c\" data-id=\"71da41c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dedb5c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dedb5c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>Victorious Dust<\/em><span>, the debut novel by Kostas Kaltsas, follows three generations of a Greek family through the recent history of contemporary Greece, from the end of the Second World War and the outbreak of the Greek Civil War in December 1944 to the infamous 2015 bailout referendum. The book engages in conversation with numerous writers, incorporating their words in the narrative, but also challenges readers to contend with traumatic collective experiences and the pervasive sense of defeat they have left behind. A biologist by training and a former bookseller by profession, Kostas Kaltsas was born in 1977 and completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Southampton, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, with\u00a0<\/span><em>Victorious Dust<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span>as his thesis. His writings in Greek have appeared in various literary magazines and as forewords to the Greek editions of books, such as Rachel Cusk\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><em>Outline<\/em><span>\u00a0and William Gass\u2019\u00a0<\/span><em>Cartesian Sonata<\/em><span>. His translations include works by David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Lethem,\u00a0and Ishmael Reed.\u00a0<\/span><em>Victorious Dust<\/em><span>\u00a0has already been published in Serbian and an English edition is forthcoming.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victorious Dust, the debut novel by Kostas Kaltsas, follows three generations of a Greek family through the recent history of contemporary Greece, from the end of the Second World War and the outbreak of the Greek Civil War in December 1944 to the infamous 2015 bailout referendum. The book engages in conversation with numerous writers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5675,"menu_order":80,"template":"","team_category":[88,73],"class_list":["post-6215","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team_category-author"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/6215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/6215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6219,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/6215\/revisions\/6219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_category?post=6215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}