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Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering at Oxford and worked in industry before starting to write in English. He studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Little Infamies, a collection of connected short stories set in a nameless Greek village, and the novels; The Maze, shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award, The Birthday Party and The Convent. Panos Karnezis lives in London.
Karnezis seems likely to take his place beside the masters of European storytelling. Independent on Sunday The Maze confirms Karnezis as an original and important literary voice. The Times Worthy of Graham Greene. [The Maze is] an outlandish, ingeniously constructed novel as powerful and full of surprises as any ancient myth. Sunday Telegraph
