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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». Author of 7 plays. Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature in 2016. The play "My Dear Laundromat" was awarded the Cyprus Theatre Organisation Prize in 2005 in the categories: Theatre Text and Acting. The play has been translated into French, Italian, Turkish and Hungarian. A characteristic feature of Georgiou's plays is their intertextual interaction with the works of the Greek tradition: the drama of Aristophanes or the poetry of I.Ritsos, or European theatre and pop culture: S. Beckett's Happy Days and Sickness, Heiner Müller's Hamlet the 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 the episodes of their lives, A. Georgiou's characters constantly find themselves in a situation of defining the boundaries of normal and abnormal...