Vassilis Vassilikos

Vasilis Vasilikos (Greek Βασίλης Βασιλικός, Vassilis Vassilikos also; born November 18, 1934 at the Macedonian Kavala towards the northern Greek island of Thassos ) is a Greek writer. He is considered one of the most important contemporary writers of Greece. Vasilikos worked as a diplomat at UNESCO for his country.

Life

Vasilikos grew up in the second largest Greek city of Thessaloniki. In the 1950s, he studied law at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki and later television directing at the drama school SRT Yale University in New York.

Since 1967 he has lived in various European cities in Italy, France, Greece and the United States as well as a DAAD scholarship for several years in West Berlin where he among other things, as a member of the Greek exile community gathered there working on a TV adaptation of a play by Luigi Squarzina for ZDF. The since the military coup in 1967 to 1974 ruling junta in Greece Obrist not tolerate his publications.

Work

He is best known for his novel "Z" and the award-winning Cannes film by Costa -Gavras: Z - Anatomy of a political murder. In the novel, designated by Vassilikos as a documentary is, starting from the assassination of Grigoris Lambrakis MPs, the methodology of a violent and corrupt regime that supported the monarchy portrayed.

After his return from exile he was 1981-1984 Vice- director at state broadcaster ERT -1.

Vasilikos was in the years 2001 to 2005 Chairman of the Greek Union of Writers and between 1996 and 2004 Ambassador of Greece to UNESCO and is active as a columnist.

In the parliamentary elections on June 17, 2012 Vasilikos ran for the Dimokratiki Aristera ( Democratic Left ).

Works

• Greek Trilogy (1961 )
• The photographs (1964 )
• Z ( 1966)
• Kroup ellas (1976 )
• The last goodbye (2009)