Panagiotis Karnezis is a Greek writer. Born in Greece in 1967, he moved to England in 1992 to study Engineering. He was later awarded a M.A. in Creative Writing by the University of East Anglia. His first collection of stories, Little Infamies, was published in 2002. In 2004 he published The Maze, a novel set during the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922. His latest novel is The Convent, published by W.W. Norton in 2010, and he is also the author of The Birthday Party. Karnezis originally comes from the western part of Greece Elis part of the Peloponnese peninsula. He lives in London. 

January 1st, 1967 in Greece (Age 57)