Name
Vasilis Vasilikos
Known For
Writing
Birthday
1934-11-18
Deathday
2023-11-30 (89 years old)
Place of Birth
Kavala, Thasos, Greece
Biography
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.
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Known For
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A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal ci...
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200 BC. During a merciless drought, the brute nature of man and the delicate essence of wo...
- 1985 Varieté as Man Outside the Phone Booth
- 2019 Adults in the Room as Classy Bar Guest
- 1979 L'amore as The Poet
- 2005 Elias Petropoulos: An Underground World as Self
- 1966 The Steps as Stavros
- 2014 The Limousine
- 2010 Odyssea Corporum - Ballad for Nikos Koundouros as Self
- 1971 Nausicaa as Writer
