Vangelis Raptopoulos

Vangelis Raptopoulos
Born	1959 Athens, Greece
Occupation	novelist
Nationality	Greek
Period	1979–
Genre	male
Website
vangelisraptopoulos.wordpress.com

Vangelis Raptopoulos (Greek: Βαγγέλης Ραπτόπουλος) (born 1959, Athens, Greece) is a Greek novelist. His first work In Pieces was published in 1979, at the age of 20. From 1980 to 1981 he lived in Sweden and in 1984 spent a half-year in the United States on an International Writing Program scholarship.

His first two books have been adapted for the television,^[1][2][3][4] while The Bachelor was brought to the screen^[5] and became a major box-office hit (more than 150.000 viewers). The Cicadas came out in English^[6] and The Incredible Story of Pope Joan in Italian.^[7] He has published more than 20 books.

He has worked as a consultant in Greek publishing houses, a scenario consultant on various television channels, a newspaper columnist,^[8][9] a screenwriter,^[10][11] a producer and speaker on radio programs. His personal archive has been donated to the Gennadius Library.^[12]

Works

• Κομματάκια (In Pieces), 1979
• Διόδια (Toll Post), 1982
• Τα τζιτζίκια (The Cicadas), 1985
• Η αυτοκρατορική μνήμη του αίματος (The Imperial Memory of Blood), 1992
• Ο εργένης (The Bachelor), 1993
• Έμμονες ιδέες (Obsessions), 1995
• Λούλα (Loula), 1997
• Το παιχνίδι (The Game), 1998
• Βαθύς και λυπημένος, όπως κι εσύ (Sad and Deep As You), 1999
• Η απίστευτη ιστορία της Πάπισσας Ιωάννας (The Incredible Story of Pope Joan), 2000
• Μαύρος γάμος (Black Wedding), 2001
• Ακούει ο Σημίτης Μητροπάνο; (Does Simitis Listen to Mitropanos?), 2001
• Η δική μου Αμερική (My Own America), 2002
• Η γενιά μου: Κομματάκια, Διόδια, Τα τζιτζίκια (My Generation: In Pieces, Toll Post, The Cicadas), 2003
• Η επινόηση της πραγματικότητας (The Invention of Reality), 2003
• Χάσαμε τον Μπαμπά (We Lost Dad), 2005
• Λίγη Ιστορία της Νεοελληνικής Λογοτεχνίας (A Bit of History of Modern Greek Literature), 2005
• Φίλοι (Friends), 2006
• Αρχαία συνταγή: Ηρόδοτος, Ηράκλειτος, Λουκιανός (Ancient Recipe: Herodotus, Heraklitus, Lucian), 2006
• Η Μεγάλη Άμμος (The Great Sand), 2007
• Απέραντα άδειο σπίτι (Endlessly Empty House), 2009
• Ιστορίες της Λίμνης: Το παιχνίδι, Βαθύς και λυπημένος όπως κι εσύ, Απέραντα άδειο σπίτι (Τales of Limni: The Game, Sad and Deep As You, Endlessly Empty House), 2011
• Η υψηλή τέχνη της αποτυχίας (The High Art of Failure), 2012
• Η πιο κρυφή πληγή (The Most Secret Wound), 2012

External links

• Official web page (Greek) and (English)
• His books at Kedros Publishers
• His books at Ikaros Publishers
• His page at the website of the Hellenic Authors' Society (Greek)
• IMDB listing
• His archive at the Genadium Library (Greek) and (English)
• Video-interview (2-10-11)
• Video-interview (1-2-12)
• "Toll Post", TV series, 1st episode
• "Toll Post", TV series, 2nd episode
• "Toll Post", TV series, 3d episode
• "Toll Post", TV series, 4th episode

Notes