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Andonis Georgiou is a Cypriot playwright and novelist. He is a member of the editorial board of the literary magazine «Anev». He is the author of 7 plays. Winner of the European Union Literary Prize in 2016. The play My Dear Laundress (2005) was awarded the Cyprus Theatre Organisation Prize in the categories of Theatre Text and Acting. The play has been translated into French, Italian, Turkish and Hungarian. A characteristic feature of A. Georgiou's plays is their intertextual interaction with the works of the Greek tradition: the drama of Aristophanes and the poetry of I. Ritsos, as well as European theatre and pop culture: S. Beckett's Happy Days and The Sickness, H. Müller's Hamlet Machine and I Was Lysistrata.

One of the central themes of A. Georgiou is the functioning of memory as the main mechanism of human awareness of his personality, the loss of memory as a kind of social dying of his characters, remembering and recalling as a process of «game» of ideologies, as a result of which a person can lose his or her personal self, create «false» memories acceptable to certain value models that exist in society as unchanging and unshakable norms. Recalling episodes of their lives, the characters of A. Georgiu's characters constantly find themselves in a situation of defining the boundaries of normal and abnormal...