Apostolos K. Doxiadis

Apostolos Doxiadis was born in 1953 in Brisbane, Australia, but grew up and resides in Athens. At the age of fifteen, he was accepted into Columbia University in New York to study mathematics and continued his postgraduate studies in applied mathematics at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. Apostolos Doxiadis has written four novels. His novel "Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture" was published in 2000 in the UK by Faber and Faber and in the USA by Bloomsbury, translated by the author himself, and has been translated into 22 languages. In 1999, Doxiadis wrote, designed, and directed the musical shadow theater performance "The Tragical History of Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionist," which was presented at the Zoumboulakis Gallery in Athens. He has also written and directed two feature films, "Underground Passage" (1983) and "Terirem" (1988), the latter of which was awarded the International Confederation of Art Cinemas (CICAE) Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival in the same year. He collaborated with the National Theatre by writing the libretto for the musical adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." International accolades: "Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture" was shortlisted for the Prix Medicis 2000. The novel was awarded the Primo Peano by the Department of Mathematics at the University of Turin in May 2001.