George Zarkadakis

George Zarkadakis

George Zarkadakis is a novelist, a poet and playwright born in Athens in 1964.

In 1982 he migrated to London, England, where he studied systems engineering at City University. At the age of 24 he received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence. Since then he has worked for the European Commission in Brussels, as an IT consultant for a number of US companies, and as a scientific researcher. In 1999 he launched in Greece the monthly popular science magazine Focus and a few years later he wrote a very successful television program for the communication of science called Evrika!. He was also very active in organizing the first Cafes Scientifiques in Greece, for the dialogue between scientists and lay citizens. He remained Editor-in-chief of Focus till then the end of 2006, before becoming the publisher of Avgo Books, an imprint of Oceanida Publications that is specializing in popular science books and the organization of science & art events for a wider audience. His first published work was the novel “The Secrets of the Lands Without”, published in 1994 by Alexandria Publications, which was also released on the World Wide Web ("the first Greek novel on the Internet"). The second edition of the novel was published by Kedros Publications in 1996. "End of the East" (a novel), was published in 1996 by Kedros Publications and was runner-up for the prestigious Greek State Literary Prize. His third novel "Archipelago Republic" was published in 1999 also by Kedros. His fourth novel “The Passage” was published in late 2004 by Kastaniotis Publications and in Italy in 2007 by Croccetti with the title “Il Grande Gelo”. Other works of George Zarkadakis include a collection of short stories “The day America Disappeared” (Kedros Publications, 2002), a poetry collection “The Koans of the Day” (Kedros Publications, 2006) and a popular science book “The Mystery of Mind: how the brain evokes consciousness” (Ellinika Grammata Publications, 2001). He has written several plays; three of which have been staged in Athens, “The Fixer” in 2002, “Y” in 2005 and “Baby” in 2007.


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