Vasilis Vasilikos

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 Greeces ambassador to UNESCO As an author Vassilikos has been highly prolific and widelytranslated 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 0394729900 or ISBN 0941423506 which has been translated into thirtytwo languages and was the basis of the awardwinning film Z directed by CostaGavras 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 Sotiropouloss book Zigzag Through the BitterOrange 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Vassilis Vassilikos licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia