Background
He was born in Athens, and studied engineering at university.
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Nicos Panayotopoulos
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He started his career as an arts journalist for newspapers, magazines and television, but switched to writing novels and screenplays in the early 1990s. He has written screenplays for short films, television series and feature films. Another award-winning screenplay was False Alarm, written in 2000 and produced in 2006.
He also teaches screenwriting in film schools and writing workshops.
As a writer of fiction, he has published a short story collection titled The Guilt of Materials (1997). He has also written four novels:
Ziggy from Marfan – The Diary of an Alien (1998)
The Gene of Doubt (1999)
Icon (2003), shortlisted for the National Novel Award
The Children of Cain (2011)
His work has been translated in Italian, French, German, Slovenian, Serbian, Chinese and Portuguese.
