Apostolos Doxiadis

Apostolos Doxiadis was born in Australia to Greek parents and grew up in Athens. He studied mathematics at Columbia University in New York and continued his postgraduate studies in Paris. Returning to Greece, he directed for the theatre and cinema. His second feature film, Terirem, won the International Confederation of Art Cinemas Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1988.

He wrote the short stories Parallel Life (Agra, 1985), Makavettas (Estia, 1988, revised edition Ikaros, 2010), Uncle Peter and Goldbach’s Conjecture (Kastaniotis, 1993, revised edition 2001), The Three Little Men (Kastaniotis, 1998), as well as the play The Seventeenth Night, which was published alongside the essay From Insanity to Algorithms in the book of the same title (Ikaros, 2006).

In 2008, Ikaros published the highly successful graphic novel Logicomix, in collaboration with Christos Papadimitriou, Alekos Papadatos, and Annie Di Donna, following five years of work. The book, which was first published in Greek, received rave reviews from readers and critics alike, and was soon followed by its publication in 22 countries around the world, turning it into a publishing phenomenon.