Vassilis Vassilikos
25. January 2008 06:55
Vassilis Vassilikos is one of Greece’s most acclaimed contemporary novelists, the author of more than one hundred books, including novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and plays. Gifted with the uncanny ability to see events in their broader context, he reveals that what we see is never the only thing there, what is spoken is only a part of what is.
Born in 1934 in Kavalla, on the northern Greek island of Thassos, Vassilikos was forced into exile after the 1967 military coup. He spent the next seven years in Paris, where he published his most famous political novel, Z, which has been translated into thirty-two languages and was the basis of the award-winning film Z, directed by Costas-Gavras. The Things I Know About Glafskos Thrassakis is regarded throughout Greece as a contemporary literary classic, and he has recently published a collection of short stories entitled …and dreams are dreams, his first work in thirty years to be translated into English.
“I wanted nothing to do with that kind of petrified memory, the stone that conceals the worms of the damp, ashes of forgetting…”
Vassilis Vassilikos lives in Athens.
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