Nikos Panayotopoulos

Biography

Nikos Panagiotopoulos (Greek: Νίκος Παναγιωτόπουλος) was born in Athens in 1963. He has written scripts for television series (The Women of Her Life, Zone Defense, etc.) and has written or collaborated in writing scripts for more than ten feature films (Apontes, Vasilias, Hours of Common Silence, etc.) – films that have been distinguished at film festivals both in Greece and abroad. He has published the short story collections The Guilt of Materials (1997, M. Rallis Award) and Graphic Character (2016) and the novels The Diary of an Alien (1998), The Doubt Gene (1999), Hagiography (2003) and The Children of Cain (2011, P. Charis Foundation Award of the Academy of Athens). Both his novels and short stories have been translated into several foreign languages. His seventh book, All Alone, was originally published in France, in the series Ce que la vie signifie pour moi by Editions du Sonneur. Restless Edges is his eighth book.