Global Greeks - Writers
Nicholas Gage (USA)
He is the author of eight books: Mafia USA, Greek Fire, Eleni, Hellas, A Place for Us, Greece: Land of Light, Bones of Contention, and The Bourlotas Fortune. Eleni, an autobiographical memoir, describes the life of his family in Greece during the Second World War and Greek Civil War, which was also made into a feature film in 1985, starring John Malkovich as Gage. He is also credited as an executive producer of Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather III.
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Nicholas Gage (born Nikola Gatzoyiannis July 23, 1939 in the village of Lia in Epirus, Greece) is a Greek American author, who has also worked as an investigative journalist covering the mafia. 
Vassilis Alexakis (France)
Selected works: La Langue maternelle, Ap. J.-C., Je t’oublierai tous les jours. |
Vassilis Alexakis was born in Santorini, in 1945 and moved to Paris in 1968.
Jeffrey Eugenides (USA)
Selected works: The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex.
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Jeffrey Eugenides, born 1960 in Detroit, Michigan is an American of Greek origins.
Aris Fioretos (Sweden)
Selected works:The Truth about Sascha Knisch, The Gray Book. |
Aris Fioretos was born in 1960 in Gothenburg, Sweden, to Greek and Austrian parents.
Theodor Kallifatides (Sweden)
Selected works: Peasants and Masters, En fallen angel. |
Theodor Kallifatides was born in Molai, Lakonia in 1938. He moved to Sweden in 1964.
Panos Karnezis (UK)
Selected works: Little Infamies, The Maze, The Birthday Party.
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Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and went to England in 1992.
Nicholas Papandreou (USA)
Selected works: A crowded heart, Father Dancing. |
Nicholas Papandreou was born in 1956 in San Francisco to a family of prominent Greek politicians and academics.
Newsweek has published the first chapter of the book (21.09.2008). According the review by the New York Times (28.08.2008), he tells "a tight, suspenseful story, packing enough of a wallop to put “The Turnaround” on an express bus of its own". Greek-american by descent, George Pelecanos was born in Washington, D.C. in 1957. Selected works: Shoedog, The Night Gardener, Drama City.
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George Pelacanos has a new book out, entitled "The Turnaround". In this urban noir, bestseller Pelecanos explores the possibility of making the turnaround, of starting over and building a new life, regardless of the past.
Christos Tsiolkas (Australia)
Selected works: Loaded, Dead Europe. In May 2009 he won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for his gritty tale of Melbourne suburbia, The Slap.
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Christos Tsiolkas was born in Melbourne in 1965, in a traditional Greek family.
Apostolos Doxiadis
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Apostolos Doxiadis (b. 1953 in Brisbane, Queensland in Australia) and raised in Greece is a Greek writer whose international bestseller “Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture” helped start the ‘mathematical fiction’ trend. Doxiadis, fluent in Greek and English, translated Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture into English in 2000. He also wrote an autobiography titled What's In A Name.
David Sedaris (USA)
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David Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is a Grammy Award-nominated American humorist and radio contributor. Four of his essay collections, (among them Naked and Me Talk Pretty One Day), have become New York Times Best Sellers. Much of Sedaris' humor is autobiographical and self-deprecating, and it often concerns his family life, Greek heritage, various jobs, education, drug use, and his homosexuality.
Antigone Kefala (Poet, Australia)
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Antigone Kefala, a contemporary Australian poet and prose-writer, was born in Romania in 1935 of Greek parents. After World War II, she moved with her family to Greece, then to New Zealand, and finally to Australia in 1960, where she has been living since. She writes in both Greek and English, and her work has also been translated in French and Czeck. She has also worked as a teacher, and is a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council.
