Voting for this year's winner begins
Overall 19 novels is included in the shortlist of nominated works for the Readers' Prize 2012 which the National Book Center announced on Thursday (THERE).
These are novels published by 1/10/2011 as of 30/9/2012 and selected by the Reading Clubs from a list 399 novels, whom the EKEVI sent them, based on data from BIBLIONET. Due to a tie that occurred in the count, readers will find four more novels on this year's list than in other years.
The vote will be held, in collaboration with ERT, Is the motto of the 16th Spare Parts Bazaar 15 November until 9 December. Readers can send by sms (single message charge) the code corresponding to the book of their choice, in the 54160.
The nominated novels are:
A lot of snow in front of the house (City) of Niki Anastasia (BA 1)
Isla Boa (City) of Christos Asteriou (BA 2)
Sunday afternoon in Vienna (A psycho) by Maros Vamvounakis (BA 3)
The woman of the northern kitchen (Kalendis) by Eleni Ghika (BA 4)
Anna Sikelianou: love and t’ dream (Kastaniotis) of K. Gourgouliani, N. K. Dominant (BA 5)
I, Zachos Zaharis (Kastaniotis) by Lena Divanis (BA 6)
The Foxes of Gosport (Cedar) of Menis Koumantareas (BA 7)
Vertical outlet (Patakis) by Paschalis Lampardi (BA 8)
Thinning (Gavrielidis) by Petros Markaris (BA 9)
Bonsai woman (Patakis) of Voula Mastori (BA 10)
The four colors of summer (City) of Tevkros Michaelidis (BA 11)
At the edge of the night (Patakis) of Kostas Murselas (BA 12)
How the world ends (Kalendis) by Maria Xylouri (BA 13)
Dark inscriptions (Metaichmium) by Alexis Panselinos (BA 14)
The times of memory (A psycho) of Theodoris Papatheodoros (BA 15)
God himself (Metaichmium) by Sakis Serefa (BA 16)
Film noir (A psycho) by Dimitris Stefanakis (BA 17)
For the love of geometry (Patakis) of Soti Triantafillou (BA 18)
The world at its own pace (Patakis) by Christos Homenidis (BA 19)
Each reader is entitled to one vote only, which is automatically registered in the ERT telephone polling system.
The final result of the vote comes half from the votes of the readers while the other half comes from the votes already given by the Reading Clubs.
The prize was awarded in the past to Isidoros Zourgos' Anemolia (2011), As I wanted to live by Eleni Priovolou (2010), the Imaret of Yiannis Kalpouzos (2009), I learned everything from you but I forgot a word by Dimitris Buradas (2008), Mr. Episkopakis by Andreas Mitsou (2007), the Amilita deep waters of Rhea Galanaki (2006) and The Method of Orleans by Eugenia Fakinou (2005).