Vasilis Vasilikos

Vasilis Vasilikos

Vasilis Vasilikos ( Greek Βασίλης Βασιλικός , also Vassilis Vassilikos ; born November 18, 1934 in the village of Potamoudia near the Macedonian Kavala across from the northern Greek island of Thasos ) is a Greek writer . He is considered one of the most important contemporary authors in 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 Aristotle University in Thessaloniki and later television directing at the Drama School-SRT at Yale University in New York.

Since 1967 he has lived in various European cities in Italy, France, Greece and the United States and as a DAAD scholarship holder in West Berlin for several years . a. as a member of the Greek exile community gathered there, worked on a television adaptation of a play by Luigi Squarzina for ZDF . The colonel junta, which had ruled Greece since the military coup from 1967 to 1974, did not tolerate his publications.

Act

He became known through his novel “ Z ” and its film adaptation by Costa-Gavras, which won awards in Cannes : Z - Anatomy of a Political Murder . In the novel, which Vassilikos describes as a documentary , the methodology of a violent and corrupt regime that supported the monarchy is described, based on the murder of the member of parliament Grigoris Lambrakis .

After his return from exile, he was Vice Director of the state broadcaster ERT-1 from 1981 to 1984 .

Vasilikos was chairman of the Greek Writers' Union from 2001 to 2005 and Greek ambassador to UNESCO between 1996 and 2004 and works as a columnist.

In the parliamentary elections on June 17, 2012 , Vasilikos ran for the left-wing Dimokratiki Aristera (DIMAR) and stood in the parliamentary election on January 25, 2015 on the general state list for the electoral alliance Prasini-DIMAR.

In the election on July 7, 2019, Vasilikos led the nationwide list of the Synaspismos Rizospastikis Aristeras (Syriza) party and entered the Greek parliament for them.

Works

• Greek Trilogy (1961)
• The photographs (1964)
• Z (1966)
• Kroup Ellás (1976)
• The Last Adieu (2009)

Web links

• Literature by and about Vasilis Vasilikos in the catalog of the German National Library
• Interview with Vassilikos on Greek-book.de (April 2007)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ trueknowledge.com about Vassilis Vassilikos
2. ↑ ^{a b} Vassilis Vassilikos : The Troubles of the Mountains lie ahead of us , comment in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 20, 2012, p. 13, columns on the left, translation by Kostas Th. Kalfopoulos
3. ↑ ^{a b} Vassilis Vassilikos at sevenstories ( memento of the original from July 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ ITHACA Online: Vassilis Vassilikos: The Plant. The Well. The Angel., Issue No 32
5. ↑ Announcement of a lecture with personal data about Vassilis Vassilikos
6. ↑ Athens News ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Prasini – DIMAR candidate list (Greek)
8. ↑ Newsroom: Εκλογές 2019: Ο Βασίλης Βασιλικός επικεφαλής του ψηφοδελτίου Επικρατείας του ΣΥΡΙΖΑ. June 14, 2019, accessed May 30, 2020 (Greek). 
9. ↑ Β. Βασιλικός: Πρώτα οι φτωχοί ή θα είναι το τέλος. Retrieved May 30, 2020 (el-GR).