Sergios Gakas

Sergios Gakas was born in 1957 in Athens. He studied theater at the University of PARIS-VIII. Since 1979, he has been working as a director. For several years, he was a producer for the First and Third Programs of ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation). He has written four plays for children. His short stories are included in collections such as "Five Painters in Search of an Author," "The Chalandri I Knew," "Greek Crimes" 2, 3, and 4, "The Last Journey," "Dangerous Entry," "Cops and Robbers," "Dark Affairs," among others. His novel "Kasko" (Kastaniotis Editions, 2001) was published in France in 2006 by Liana Levi under the title "La piste de Salonique" and in Italy by Crocetti under the title "Intrigo a Salonicco." He is a founding member of the Hellenic Crime Writers Club (ELSAL). Since September 2014, he has served as the Deputy Mayor of Culture for the Municipality of Chalandri. In 2017, he was elected president of ELSAL. (photo: Giovanni Giovannetti, www.ekebi.gr)