Vasilis Vasilikos

Writing
BirthdayNov 18, 1934 (89 years old)
DeathdayNov 30, 2023
Place of birthKavala, Thasos, Greece
GenderMale

Vassilis Vassilikos (Greek: Βασίλης Βασιλικός, born November 18, 1934) is a prolific Greek writer and diplomat. A native of the northern Greek island of Thassos, Vassilikos grew up in Salonika, graduating from law school there before moving to Athens to work as a journalist. Due to his political activities, he was forced into exile following the 1967 military coup, where he spent the next seven years. Between 1981 and 1984 Vassilikos served as general manager of the Greek state television channel ET1. Since 1996, he has served as Greece's ambassador to UNESCO. As an author, Vassilikos has been highly prolific and widely-translated. He has published more than 100 books, including novels, plays and poetry. His best known work is the political novel Z (1967) (English language ISBN 0-394-72990-0 or ISBN 0-941423-50-6), which has been translated into thirty-two languages and was the basis of the award-winning film Z directed by Costa-Gavras (with music by Mikis Theodorakis). In 2008, Vassilikos was among to 41 other personalities of Greece that condemned the action of the withdrawal of Ersi Sotiropoulos's book Zigzag Through the Bitter-Orange Trees from the Greek school libraries, after the appeal of insurance measures by Konstantinos Plevris against to the Ministry of National Education of Greece for this issue. In 2001, Petros Tatoulis had asked the withdrawal of this specific book and he characterized this as pornographic due to the provocative sexual scenes that it contains. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vassilis Vassilikos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Classy Bar Guest

Oct 3, 2019

Man Outside the Phone Booth

Jan 18, 1985

Jan 30, 2014

The Poet

Jan 1, 1979

Stavros

Jan 1, 1966

Classy Bar Guest

Oct 3, 2019

Man Outside the Phone Booth

Jan 18, 1985

Jan 30, 2014

The Poet

Jan 1, 1979

Stavros

Jan 1, 1966

Acting


Participated in 12 movies, 2 TV series

2019

Classy Bar Guest




1999





1987



1985

Man Outside the Phone Booth


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