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In addition to poems and song lyrics Hapsiadis recently wrote three novels. He only lately decided to focus on writing novels and had his first three written after 2005, more than twenty years after he started writing lyrics. All of them are largely autobiographic with many details about events that actually took place and form part of the history of modern ''rebetika''. His first two novels were "Η ζωη μου τραγούδι το τραγούδι ζωη" (My life (is) a song, the song (is) life)<ref>Η ζωη μου τραγούδι το τραγούδι ζωη ΙSBN 978-960-631-793-4</ref> and "Ο αλήτης άγγελος" (''An angel vagabond'') <ref>Ο αλήτης άγγελος ISBN 978-960-931010-9</ref><ref>[http://www.elliniko-fenomeno.gr/?p=2106 Book Review by Elliniko-Fenomeno.gr]</ref>. In his second novel, although most of his writing describes real life events, locations and names of real persons, the author presents them as the building blocks of a "fiction" storyline. His third novel is scheduled for release end of October 2010.
As a self-taught author, Hapsiadis creates unusual plots wherein key Greek music industry players participate as personages. In all his novels to-date his heroes maintain their real life names; however, in his second novel, Hapsiadis uses the name Lelos<ref>[http://www.eleftherovima.gr/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?newsid1243328648,93460, Ελεύθερο Βήμα]</ref> instead of his own given Christian name of Lefteris to represent himself as the leading actor. All three novels, written is simple everyday spoken Greek, without the stereotypical techniques used by many writers, read rather fluently, and they can be typically consumed by a reader in a few hours. Another not so usual characteristic in his novels
==Honors==
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