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	Vassilis Vassilikos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		His best known work is the political novel Z (1967) (English language ISBN 0394729900 or ISBN 0941423506), which has been translated into thirty-two languages and was the basis of the award-winning film Z directed by Costa-Gavras (with music by Mikis Theodorakis).
		Between 1981 and 1984 Vassilikos served as general manager of the Greek state television channel ERT-1.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vassilis_Vassilikos (190 words)

	Vassilis Vassilikos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Vassilis Vassilikos (Βασίλης Βασιλικός) (born November 18, 1934) is a prolific Greek (Greek: A native or inhabitant of Greece) writer (writer: Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)) and diplomat (diplomat: An official engaged in international negotiations).
		A native of the northern Greek island of Thassos (Thassos: thasos, is the name of an island in the north of the aegean sea, off the coast of thrace...
		As an author, Vassilikos has been highly prolific and widely-translated (translated: translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/vassilis_vassilikos (271 words)

	The New York Review of Books: Recent Fiction
		Vassilis Vassilikos is a writer who deals in fables and prodigies, but the cast of his imagination is as much Gothic as Greek.
		Vassilikos' vein of fantasy is all his own, and he exploits it zestfully.
		When the student eventually finds out where the girl lives, he breaks in and steals the shrub which she was carrying in a flowerpot when he first saw her.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/13232 (516 words)

	Vassilis Vassilikos: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Vassilis Vassilikos (Βασίλης Βασιλικός) (born November 18, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
		Vassilikos grew up in Salonika (A port city in northeastern Greece on an inlet of the Aegean Sea; second largest city of Greece)
		Vassilikos has been highly prolific and widely-translated (Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language-the...)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/vassilis_vassilikos (879 words)

	TRAIN (Authors - Members)
		Career: Vassilikos is the most prolific Greek novelist of his time, amassing a volume of work over 100 books long.
		Vassilis Vassilikos “is a cosmopolitan master deserving of promotion to world fame” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
		WITH MY OWN title, "Portraits of Cabbies", I have selected from Thrassakis's Diary those passages in which he attempts to analyze the Greek mentality by comparing individuals of the same profession (in the case, taxi drivers) from several different regions of the country.
	www.dedalus.gr /en/author.asp?id=54 (3089 words)

	International Readings at Harbourfront (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An honourary UNESCO Ambassador, Vassilikos is the most prolific Greek novelist of his time, amassing a volume of work over 100 books long.
		After the military coup in 1967, Vassilikos spent seven years in exile from Greece, before returning to Athens.
		Vassilikos’ best known novel, Z, was adapted for film, winning the jury prize at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.
	www.readings.org /bios/vassilikos_vassilis.html (102 words)

	BookCounter.com: Books by Vassilis Vassilikos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At the crossroads where magic realism and political fiction meet, Vassilis Vassilikos’s buoyant literary imagination successfully defies narrative structural conventions and common fiction grounds.
		With its irreverent and often comically absurd tone, Glafkos Thrassakis a literary tour de force.
		Vassilikos has been to rarely translated into English; one can only hope this complex, multilayered novel will change that." -Mary Park, The New York Times Book Review
	www.bookcounter.com /author/vassilisvassilikos/1 (315 words)

	Vassilis Vassilikos
		His best known work is the political novel Z (1967), which has been translated into thirty-two languages and was the basis of the award-winning film directed by Costa-Gavras (with music by Mikis Theodorakis).Between 1981 and 1984 Vassilikos served as general manager of the Greek state television channel ERT-1.
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	washingtonpost.com: ... and dreams are dreams
		It would seem a pity, in this case, not to know Greek, for Vassilis Vassilikos (best-known as the author of Z), seems to be a congenial punster.
		This is a textbook example of what is called a "mature work" of art.
		Vassilis Vassilikos is a master, and some of the writing here will take your breath away.
	washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/reviews/anddream.htm (231 words)

	The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Vassilis Vassilikos. The Few Things I Know about Glafkos Thrassakis.(Book Review)@ ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Vassilikos creates an unnamed narrator who is writing a biography of the fictional writer Glafkos Thrassakis (pen name for Lazarus Lazaridis).
		Vassilikos probes the intriguing dynamics between biographer and subject: how...
		This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:105710389&... (197 words)

	Z (France-Algeria, 1969). Movie reviews by Dr. Edwin Jahiel.
		Eventually the right-wing establishment fell and a precarious democracy was established, only to lead to a coup on 21 April 1967, by a military junta.
		A Greek writer, Vassilis Vassilikos, recounted the events around the Lambrakis murder in a thick novel, Z, in 1966.
		The title comes from a combination of the sound of the Greek letter Z, which is pronounced approximately like "Long Live", and the English sound of Z, which means in Greek, " he lives, he is alive".
	www.prairienet.org /ejahiel/z.htm (1055 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Vassilis Vassilikos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bio: Born in 1933 in Kavalla in Northern Greece, Vassilis Vassilikos grew up mostly in Salonika.
		In the first new book by Vassilis Vassilikos to be translated into English in thirty years, Greece's most acclaimed living novelist gives us a magical realist portrait of contemporary Europe and contemporary Europeans.
		In the tradition of Gabriel García Márquez and Luigi Pirandello, Vassilikos writes of the fantasies within reality, the spirit in existence, an...
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/VassilisVassilikoseBooks.htm (224 words)

	The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis, Seven Stories Press
		A brilliant work of the imagination as well as a meditation on writing itself, the story follows a biographer’s investigation into the life and works of a famous, yet highly mysterious, deceased Greek author named Glafkos Thrassakis.
		At the crossroads where magical realism and political fiction meet, Vassilis Vassilikos’s buoyant literary imagination flourishes beyond the confines of conventional narrative structures.
		Vassilis Vassilikos, Greece’s most acclaimed novelist, was born on the island of Thasos in 1933.
	www.sevenstories.com /book/index.cfm/GCOI?GCOI=58322100276210 (302 words)

	RCF - Book Reviews
		An “afterword” devoted to Thrassakis’s text “Conversations with Andreas Kalvos,” identifying parallels between his own life and that of the real nineteenth-century Greek writer, adds yet one more layer to the patently palimpsestic quality of this work while at the same time blurring fact and fiction.
		Vassilikos probes the intriguing dynamics between biographer and subject: how the biographer is prone to identify with certain qualities of his subject and how his own life narrative is influenced by the subject as he retraces his subject’s steps.
		Whose life is whose, we might ask in the end, and where does one life begin and another end?
	www.centerforbookculture.org /review/bookreviews/03_2/few.html (312 words)

	The Few Things I Know about Glafkos Thrassakis - Vassilis Vassilikos
		A brilliant work of the imagination as well as an inspiring commentary on writing, the story follows a biographer's investigation into the life and works of a famous, yet highly mysterious, deceased Greek writer, Glafkos Thrassakis.
		Vassilikos has been so rarely translated into English; one can only hope this complex, multilayered novel will change that."-Mary Park, "The New York Times Book Review
		His most famous novel, "Z, has been translated into 32 languages.
	www.libreriauniversitaria.it /BUS/1583226540/The_Few_Things_I_Know_about_Glafkos_Thrassakis.htm (208 words)

	Vassilis Vassilikos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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	THREE AUTHORS CONSIDER THE FUTURE OF LITERATURE AT 21ST CENTURY TALK {21 May 1999}
		asked Vassilis Vassilikos, author, notably, of Z, and Rêves diurnes, who is also Greece's Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO.
		What is important is the writer's ability to embody the mythological which remains immutable, as man remains immutable."
		Mr Vassilikos considered that our age is still based on the written word, but he contended that the technique of discourse is no longer solely identified with the book.
	www.unesco.org /bpi/eng/unescopress/99-114e.htm (574 words)

	Alibris: Vassilis Vassilikos
		Vassilikos has been so rarely translated into English; one can only hope this complex, multilayered novel will change that."-Mary Park, "The New York Times Book Review A brilliant work of the imagination as well as an inspiring commentary on writing, the story follows a biographer's investigation into...
		by Vasiles Vasilikos, Vassilis Vassilikos, Mary Kitroeff (Translator)
		The book behind Costa-Gavras' award-winning film, a suspense novel by Greece's best known contemporary writer.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Vassilis_Vassilikos (346 words)

	Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Showcasing the work of such well-known modern writers as (Nobel Prize-winners) Odysseus Elytis, and George Seferis, Nikos Kazantzakis, and Vassilis Vassilikos.
		Incorporating myths, the meditative tranquillity of the region, and a past full of struggle and civil war, these stories are arranged by geographical region for the traveler and provide an enriching odyssey through the Greek landscape and mind.
		Contributors: Elli Alexiou, Melpo Axioti, Odysseus Elytis, Michel Faïs, Eugenia Fakinou, Rhea Galanaki, Marios Hakkas, Dimitris Hatzis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Margarita Karapanou, Alexandra Papadopoulou, George Seferis, Vassilis Vassilikos, Ilias Venezis, Leonidas Zenakos, Yiorgos Chouliaras, Georgios Drosinis, Yorgos Ioannou, Christoforos Milionis, Kostas Ouranis, Thanassis Valtinos, Eva Vlami, Manolis Xexakis
	www.whereaboutspress.com /html/greece.html (184 words)

	...And Dreams Are Dreams, Seven Stories Press
		This collection of short fiction bu the author of Z presents magical realism at its best...cont'd
		Finally, it is the author's own appearance in...And Dreams Are Dreams; he is as much part of the story as one of his characters.
		The New York Times Book Review said Vassilikos' Z was "shattering validity....exciting reading...Vassilikos' gifts are dazzling." Marguerite Duras called it "an admirable book and a rich one that achieves its aims to throw light on a historical moment of great significance."
	www.sevenstories.com /book/index.cfm/GCOI?GCOI=58322100220280 (259 words)

	"WHAT FUTURE FOR LITERATURE?" SUBJECT OF NEXT 21ST CENTURY TALK {17 May 1999} (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		at Organization Headquarters (Room II), and will bring together Philippe Sollers, Rarmakanta Rath and Vassilis Vassilikos who will discuss the question "What Future for Literature?"
		Greek writer Vassislis Vassilikos, is the author of - among others - Z, a best seller translated into 32 languages, Rêves diurnes, K, Vita Nova, and also Ambassador, Permanent Delegate of Greece to UNESCO.
		The "21st Century Talks" are aimed at preparing for the coming century through exchanges between leading scientists and intellectuals, decision-makers and international figures.
	www.unesco.org /bpi/eng/unescopress/99-109e.htm (255 words)

	eBooks - ...And Dreams Are Dreams by Vassilis Vassilikos, Mary Kitroeff - eReader.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		In the tradition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Luigi Pirandello, Vassilikos writes of the fantasies within reality, the spirit in existence, and the art within life.
	ereader.com /product/detail/10193?book=...And_Dreams_Are_Dreams:_A_N... (226 words)

	...And Dreams Are Dreams - Vassilis Vassilikos - Microsoft Reader eBook
		...And Dreams Are Dreams - Vassilis Vassilikos - Microsoft Reader eBook
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