- Vassilis Vassilikos
Vassilis Vassilikos (Greek: Βασίλης Βασιλικός, born
November 18 ,1934 ) is a prolific Greekwriter anddiplomat . A native of the northern Greek island ofThassos , Vassilikos grew up inSalonika , graduating from law school there before moving toAthens to work as a journalist. Due to his political activities, he was forced intoexile 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
novel s, plays andpoetry . His best known work is thepolitical 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 byCosta-Gavras [13-2-1933] (with music byMikis Theodorakis ) [29-7-1925] .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.Fact|date=May 2008
elected Bibliography
*The Monarch
*And Dreams Are Dreams
*The Photographs
*The Plant, the Well, the Angel
*The Coroner's Assistant
*The Harpoon Gun
*The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis
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