Vangelis Raptopoulos

Vangelis Raptopoulos (Athens, 1959) published his first book at the age of twenty. He has published novels and novellas: ‘The Imperial Memory of Blood’, ‘Lula’, ‘Black Wedding’, ‘The Invention of Reality’, ‘We Lost Dad’, ‘Friends’, ‘The Great Sand’ and others. Collected works: ‘Obsessive Ideas’, ‘My Generation’, ‘Stories of the Lake’. Between chronicle and autobiography: ‘Is Simitis Listening to Mitropanos?’, ‘My America’, ‘A Brief History of Modern Greek Literature’, ‘The High Art of Failure’. As well as translated excerpts from ancient Greek authors. ‘The Cicadas’ was published in English, ‘The Incredible Story of Pope Joan’ in Italian. ‘The Bachelor’ was adapted for the cinema, and ‘The Toll’ for television. In total, more than 250,000 copies of his books have been printed.