About

Chris Polítes is a novelist, playwright and essayist. His second novel Give Sorrow Words is awaiting publication. He has written several plays in both English and Greek. During the height of pandemic the psychoanalytic work The Sublime in Everyday Life in which he contributed was published by Routledge in 2020. Chris currently lives and works in East London. 

 

Chris came to writing through the theatre, by creating sketches for a local company in his home town of Corfu, Greece. This work led him to London, where he went on to develop his writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, in an MA Writing for Performance and Dramaturgy. Throughout his masters Chris developed work with Islington Community Theatre. His play Daylight later transferred to Soho Theatre, London. His works have been performed in London, Brighton and Corfu. 

 

In 2017 Chris completed his debut novel Other Voices. Allowing him to finally find a home where he could fuse together his pursuits of psychology, neurology, linguistics, mathematics, history and post-modernist literature. Happily inhabiting his new-found role of novelist Chris began researching his second novel, Give Sorrow Words, which he has now completed thanks to the help of multiple London lockdowns. There are plans for a third, so watch this space. 

 

Chris began as a student of mathematics and later psychology, therefore academic writing is an old friend. He professionally edits academic and legal texts alongside contributing to the world of psychoanalytic works.