Vagelis Raptopoulos

Vangelis Raptopoulos (Athens, 1959) has published twenty fiction titles ("Tolls," "The Cicadas," "The Bachelor," "Lula," "The Incredible Story of Pope Joan," "Black Wedding," "The Invention of Reality," "Friends," "The Great Sand," "Stories of the Lake," "The Most Hidden Wound," "Lesbian," "The Man Who Burned Greece," among others), four books that blend chronicle and autobiography ("Does Simitis Listen to Mitropanos?", "My America," "A Brief History of Modern Greek Literature," "The High Art of Failure"), as well as a collection-composition with translated excerpts from ancient Greek authors. His works have been translated into foreign languages and adapted for theater, cinema, and television. Over 250,000 copies of his books have been printed in total. He teaches Creative Writing in the postgraduate program at the Hellenic Open University. His personal archive is housed at the Gennadius Library. For more information and useful links, visit the author's website: http://vangelisraptopoulos.wordpress.com/