About

Known credits:
15
Birthday:
1934-11-18
Place of birth:
Kavala, Thasos, Greece
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Vasilis Vasilikos

Overview

Vassilis Vassilikos (Greek: Βασίλης Βασιλικός, born November 18, 1934) is a prolific Greek writer and diplomat. A native of the northern Greek island of Thassos, Vassilikos grew up in Salonika, graduating from law school there before moving to Athens to work as a journalist. Due to his political activities, he was forced into exile following the 1967 military coup, where he spent the next seven years.

Between 1981 and 1984 Vassilikos served as general manager of the Greek state television channel ET1. Since 1996, he has served as Greece's ambassador to UNESCO.

As an author, Vassilikos has been highly prolific and widely-translated. He has published more than 100 books, including novels, plays and poetry. His best known work is the political novel Z (1967) (English language ISBN 0-394-72990-0 or ISBN 0-941423-50-6), which has been translated into thirty-two languages and was the basis of the award-winning film Z directed by Costa-Gavras (with music by Mikis Theodorakis).

In 2008, Vassilikos was among to 41 other personalities of Greece that condemned the action of the withdrawal of Ersi Sotiropoulos's book Zigzag Through the Bitter-Orange Trees from the Greek school libraries, after the appeal of insurance measures by Konstantinos Plevris against to the Ministry of National Education of Greece for this issue. In 2001, Petros Tatoulis had asked the withdrawal of this specific book and he characterized this as pornographic due to the provocative sexual scenes that it contains.

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Known for

Acting
2019 Adults in the Room Actor Classy Bar Guest 60
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2014 The Limousine Actor 58
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2005 Elias Petropoulos: An Underground World Actor Self 59
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1985 Varieté Actor Man Outside the Phone Booth 59
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1979 L'amore Actor The Poet N/A
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1966 The Steps Actor Stavros N/A
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Writing
1999 Θύματα Ειρήνης Writing Writer 69
Fair
1998 Loneliness Everywhere, Loneliness Nowhere Writing Story 58
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1995 Το Τελευταίο Αντίο Writing Writer 70
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1989 L'isola alla deriva Writing Writer N/A
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1987 Broken April Writing Writer N/A
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1986 The Night with Silena Writing Novel 59
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1969 Z Writing Novel 68
Fair
1966 The Steps Writing Writer N/A
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1963 Young Aphrodites Writing Writer 59
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