Dimitris Lyacos

Dimitris Lyacos is a Greek writer, born in 1966. He is the author of the composite novel Until the Victim Becomes our Own and of the Poena Damni trilogy. His work has been described by critics as post-tragic and is marked by a genre-defying form and an avant-garde combination of themes drawn from tragedy, religious ritual and modern experience. Until the Victim Becomes Our Own explores the evolution of violence in a sequence of chapters, each headed by a letter of the classical Latin alphabet, and combines a literary tradition with elements from ritual, religion, philosophy and anthropology.