The Wonderful Camel

Eugenios Trivizas is a lawyer, a graduate in Law and Political and Economic Sciences from the University of Athens, holder of a Master of Laws (University College) and a Doctor of Laws from the London School of Economics and Political Science (London School of Economics and Political Science) and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of London. He teaches Criminology and Comparative Criminal Law at the University of Reading and heads the Department of Criminological Studies at the same university (Director of Criminal Justice Studies). He has also taught at Bramshill Police College, Central London Polytechnic and the London School of Economics. From 1993 to 1998, he was a visiting professor of Criminology at Panteion University of Athens.

His criminological and legal articles have been published in journals such as ‘The Lancet’, ‘British Journal of Criminology’, ‘Annales internationales de Criminologie’ and others. Eugenios Trivizas has been involved in literature since his childhood. He has written over 100 children’s books, one book for adults (The Fireman in Love) and over 20 plays, as well as librettos for operas. His works have been honoured with awards from the ‘Union of Greek Writers’, the ‘Circle of the Greek Children’s Book’ and the ‘Women’s Literary Society’. In England and America, his books have received, amongst others: the Parents’ Choice Amazing Accomplishment Award, the Sheffield Children’s Book Award Commendation, the Judson, Massachusetts Children’s Choice Award, and the Arizona Library Association Young Readers Award. His play "The Scarecrow's Dream" was performed in 1992 at the British Museum Theatre in England as part of the European Arts Festival. In the same year, his play "A Thousand and One Cats", translated by Z. Rudrinski, was awarded first prize in the international playwriting competition organised by the Polish Centre for Youth Art. In 1993, his book "The Three Little Wolves" reached second place in the US children’s bestsellers list (Picture Books). Eugene Trivizas’s books have been broadcast by the BBC, included in Greek and American school reading lists, and translated into English, German, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese and many other languages. In America, the library of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis (U.M. Andersen Library) decided to bring together the complete works of Eugen Trivizas, studies of his work, manuscripts and other material in a special research collection. An exhibition of the collection’s first acquisitions was held at the University of Minnesota in May 2000, where Eugenios Trivizas spoke on the topic "Stereotypes of Good and Evil in Children’s Literature", and his presentation was responded to by the renowned children’s literature theorist, Professor Jack Zipes.

Born in Athens in 1972. He studied graphic design at the Vakalo School (’89–’92) and worked on the Animantis animation programme at Stefi Cine & TV Productions, where he created the animated short film “The Circle” (which received honourable mentions at the Drama ’92, Larissa ’93 and Ministry of Culture ’93 festivals). He then worked for two years as a visualiser for MacCann Erickson Athens, whilst in ’95 he attended a seminar at Disney Consumer Products Paris, followed by his military service.Since ’97, as a freelance illustrator, he has collaborated with a number of magazines (Nitro, Metro, PCmagazine, Playstation, Status, etc.), has designed mascots for well-known brands (COSMOKARTA-Cosmote, Topkid-DELTA/Danone, ETHEL, etc.), has written articles for publications in the field of Visual Communication (+Design, Adobe magazine), taught at AKTO from 2001 to 2012, and since 2012 has been teaching the art of comics at his own workshop at Vakalo College.He has participated in a large number of exhibitions, including solo shows at the Vakalo School in 2000 and at the Hellenic-American Union (Comicdom Con 2007), and group shows at EPASKT (En Aithria ’05, ’08) and at the Benaki Museum (celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Vakalo School, May 2008 & ATHENS VOICE - ‘Cover Exhibition #4’, October 2009).As a comic book artist, he has created international campaigns for Adobe Europe (2004 and 2005) and the UN (he also designed the official mascot for UNEP DTIE), illustrated the mini-series “The Imaginaries” for Blue Water Productions, and works as an inker for IMAGE COMICS (Savage Dragon, Image United, Invincible, 50 Girls 50), MARVEL COMICS (Simonson’s THOR remastered) and Random House UK (Mirabilis-The Year of Wonders). He has also illustrated the comic “KOPIA”, written by Michalis Manolios, for COMIKWORLD Publications (organisers of AthensCon) and “THE WONDERFUL CAMEL”, written by Evgenios Trivizas, for IKAROS Publications.Further information can be found on his award-winning website (EBGE 2005 commendation) www.koutsis.com, on his blog koutsis.tumblr.com and on Facebook www.facebook.com/nikos.koutsis