Vangelis Raptopoulos


  • Vangelis Raptopoulos is a Greek novelist and considered a part of the "1980s generation".

Career

He published his first work, In Pieces, in 1979 at the age of 20. Along with his second book, Toll Post, they were adapted for television; Loula, Black Wedding and The Invention of Reality were performed on stage; while The Bachelor and Lesbian were brought to the screen. The Cicadas came out in English, The Incredible Story of Pope Joan in Italian. He has published around 30 books.
Raptopoulos has worked as a literary consultant in Greek publishing houses, a scenario consultant at Greek Film Center and various TV channels, a newspaper and magazine columnist, a screenwriter for the small and big screen, a playwright for the National Theater and independent theater groups, a producer and speaker on radio programs, an adjunct lecturer in Creative Writing at the Hellenic Open University. His personal archive has been donated to the Gennadius Library.

Works

  1. My Generation: In Pieces, Toll Post, The Cicadas
  2. The Imperial Memory of Blood
  3. Nightmares with Women: The Batchelor, The Incredible Story of Pope Joan, Black Wedding
  4. Obsessions
  5. Loula
  6. Τales of Limni: The Game, Sad and Deep As You, Endlessly Empty House
  7. Does Simitis Listen to Mitropanos?
  8. My Own America
  9. The Invention of Reality
  10. We Lost Dad
  11. A Bit of History of Modern Greek Literature
  12. Friends
  13. Ancient Recipe: Herodotus, Heraklitus, Lucian
  14. The Great Sand
  15. The High Art of Failure
  16. The Most Secret Wound
  17. F8alism
  18. Lesbian
  19. The Man Who Burned Down Greece ''''
  20. The Best Things that Ever Happened to Me
  21. Untouched
  22. Loves, Loves, Loves
  23. God is to Blame, for Making the World So Beautiful: Allegories from Kazantzakis
  24. Innocence ''''