Thanasis Valtinos
Thanasis Valtinos ( Greek Θανάσης Βαλτινός Thanásis Valtinós , born December 16, 1932 in Karatoula , Kynouria , Greece ) is a Greek narrator, novelist, screenwriter and translator.
life and work
Valtinós studied at the Athens Film Academy and writes scripts (including for Theo Angelopoulos ) and stories. With his brief, extremely condensed texts, he wrote Greek literary history. His work comprises traditionally narrated novels, text collages and a literary, autobiographical report by a contemporary witness of the Balkan wars and the wave of emigration at the beginning of the twentieth century. For his screenplay for the film Reise nach Kythera , he received the Best Original Screenplay Award in Cannes in 1984 , and the Greek State Award in 1990 for the novel Daten über die 1960s . In 2012 he was awarded the Greek State Prize for Literature.
He also translated ancient tragedies of Euripides and Aeschylus from ancient to modern Greek.
Works
- Accoutumance à la nicotine , Le Bouscat 2008, Finitude
- Data from the Decade of the Sixties , Evanston 2000, Northwestern UP
- Deep Blue Almost Black , Evanston 1997, Northwestern UP
- Orthokosta , Athens 1994, Ekdoseis Agra
- Plumes de bécasse , Arles 1994, Actes Sud
- In plaster , in: Danae Coulmas (ed.), Die Execution des Mythos ... took place in the early morning , Cologne 1984, Romiosini
- The legend of Andreas Kordopatis , Cologne 1982, Romiosini
- The March of the Nine , Berlin 1976, LCB editions
Web links
- Literature by and about Thanasis Valtinos in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Βαλτινός, Θανάσης . BiblioNet.gr. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Valtinos, Thanasis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Valtinós, Thanásis; Βαλτινός, Θανάσης (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek storyteller, novelist, screenwriter and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karatoula , Kynouria , Greece |