His latest novel, The Book of Katherine, chronicled his mother's lifelong struggle with bipolar disorder. In 2014, he participated in the International Writing Program's Fall Residency at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA. In 2004 Corteau won the Greek National Book Award for Children's Literature and the IBBY Prize for Best Children's Novel. In addition to the fourteen novels, novellas and short stories collections he has published over the years, he has also worked extensively as a translator, and has translated into Greek numerous works by English-language writers, amongst them books by Nabokov, Banville, Updike, Annie Proulx and Cormac McCarthy. Medicine, Aristotle University of ThessalonikiĪuguste Corteau (Greek: Αύγουστος Κορτώ) is the pen name of the Greek author Petros Hadjopoulos (Πέτρος Χατζόπουλος).Ĭorteau was born in Thessaloniki, in 1979.
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