Vassilis Alexakis
Vassilis Alexakis (Greek Βασίλης Αλεξάκης; born 1943 in Athens ) is a writer, he wrote his works in French and Greek. In 1995 he received the French Prix Médicis the.
Life
Vassilis Alexakis came to France in 1961 to study Journalism in Lille. In Greece, there was this degree does not exist at that time. Shortly after graduation, he returned to Greece, where he witnessed the 1967 Colonels' coup, which launched the Greek military dictatorship. Then he left the country again one year later to settle in Paris, where he worked as a journalist. Today he divides his time between Paris and Athens respectively on the Greek island of Tinos.
Work
Alexakis puts in his work with the life between two cultures and two languages , as well as with writing apart. Fiction and reality are inseparable with him hardly, in part because there are a lot of parallels between him and his protagonists.
His first novels, Le sandwich from 1975, Les girls en Boum - Boum - City of 1976 and La tête du chat of 1978, have been written in French and translated into Greek by Alexakis ' mother. It was not until the fourth novel, Tαλγο (1980 ), Alexakis wrote in Greek and translated it himself into French under the title Talgo.
Here are some French works, including the autobiography Paris - Athènes (1989 ) and the winner of the Prix Albert Camus work Avant 1992 before Alexakis published the next Greek novel: Ε: Η Μητρική γλώσσα ( "E: The mother tongue " 1995), which in turn appeared in Alexakis ' own translation under the title La langue maternelle in France and was awarded the Prix Médicis.