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Kostas Lympouris: 'Nothing harms the language more than the artificial'

Published December 31, 2025, 05:04
Kostas Lympouris: 'Nothing harms the language more than the artificial'

Award-winning author Kostas Lympouris discusses his new collection of short stories, “The Mother Cat” (Rodakio Publications), emphasizing the deep emotional connection between people, animals, and places. He explains that the collection explores pain as a unifying element, avoiding the “contrived” or “artificial.” The stories deal with themes such as deprivation of freedom, otherness, occupation, and loss, with particular emphasis on the human-animal relationship. Lympouris notes that pain can be a driving force for creation, even in the animal world, as seen in the story “The Mother Cat,” where a cat mourns the loss of her kittens.