Giorgos Leonardos

Giorgos Leonardos, 2008

Giorgos Leonardos ( Greek Γιώργος Λεονάρδος , born February 20, 1937 in Alexandria , Egypt ) is a Greek author of historical novels .

Youth and education

After the early death of his father, Leonardos lived with his mother Maria in Alexandria. He was an avid reader of fiction and history. As a student in Alexandria, he published short stories in "Tachydromos" and "Anatoli", the city's Greek daily newspapers.

In 1954 he moved to Greece to study physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki . After graduating, he studied journalism and started working as a journalist.

Professional activity

Leonardos worked as a reporter for the most important Athens newspapers "Apogevmatini", "Eleftherotypia", "Mesimvrini", "Eleftheros Typos", "Ethnos" and as a columnist for the business newspaper "Kerdos". In 1964 he was the first correspondent for the Athens News Agency in Belgrade , and in 1976 in New York , where he was also editor-in-chief of the local Greek newspaper Ethnikos Kirikas.

Leonardos also worked as a newscaster for public and private television channels in Greece, covering the Vietnam War , the Iran-Iraq War and the Persian Gulf War. He is a member of the Association of Daily Press Editors in Greece and the National Society of Greek Writers.

Works and awards

His first novel "Grandma's Red Sofa" was published in 1992. He received two awards for the best historical novel of the Greek Society of Christian Studies for the novels "Mara, the Christian Sultana" and "Sleeping Beauty of Mystras". For his services to journalism and literature, he received a prize from the Botsis Foundation.

The novels "Michael VIII Palaiologos the Liberator", "The Palaiologists" and "The Last Palaiologist" form the trilogy about the dynasty of the palaeologists . This trilogy is complemented by the historical novel “Sofia Palaiologina”.

In 2008 he was nominated for the Greek State Prize for the best historical novel with his novel "The Last Paleologist".

The historical novel "Barbarossa the Pirate" was also published in England, Italy and Spain. In 1980 he published the English-Greek dictionary of military terms, in 2000 he published the "Structure of the Novel". His latest historical novel is "Maggelan"

Novels

• Το κόκκινο Σαλόνι της Γιαγιάς ' Grandma's Red Sofa' , 1992, ISBN 978-960-03-0934-8 .
• Το σπίτι πάνω απ 'τις κατακόμβες' The house above the catacombs' , 1993, ISBN 978-960-23-6366-9 .
• Εύα ' Eva' , 1994, ISBN 960-236-488-2 .
• Οι πόλοι του μαγνήτη ' Die Pole des Magneten' , 1995, ISBN 960-236-575-7 .
• Οι εραστές της γης ' Lovers of the Earth' , 1996, ISBN 960-236-706-7 .
• Το τραγούδι της ψυχής ' A song from the soul' , 1997, ISBN 960-236-843-8 .

Historical novels

• Μπαρμπαρόσα ο πειρατής ' Barbarossa the Pirate' , 1998, ISBN 978-960-23-6977-7 .
• Μάρα, η χριστιανή σουλτάνα ' Mara, the Christian Sultana' , 1999, ISBN 978-960-14-0130-0 .
• Μαρία η Μαγδαληνή ' Maria Magdalena' , 2001, ISBN 960-14-0457-0 .
• Η ωραία κοιμωμένη του Μυστρά ' Sleeping Beauty of Mystras' , 2003, ISBN 960-14-0740-5 .
• Μιχαήλ Η Παλαιολόγος ' Michael VIII Paläologos' , 2004, ISBN 960-14-0998-X .
• Οι Παλαιολόγοι ' The Paleologists' , 2006, ISBN 960-14-1206-9 .
• Ο τελευταίος Παλαιολόγος ' The Last Paleologist' , 2007, ISBN 978-960-14-1644-1 .
• Σοφία Παλαιολογίνα ' Sofia Palaiologa' , 2008, ISBN 978-960-14-1836-0 .
• Μαγγελάνος ' Magellan' , 2009, ISBN 978-960-14-2058-5 .
• Ξεκλειδώνοντας τα μυστικά της Θούλης, 2010, ISBN 978-960-14-2272-5 ' THULE'

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Communication from the Greek Ministry of Culture of October 12, 2008 (Greek)
2. ↑ Website of Giorgos Leonardos ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Website of Giorgos Leonardos