Thanasis Valtinos

Thanasis Valtinos

Known for: Writing
Biography: 1932-12-16 (91 years old)

Biography

Thanasis Valtinos (December 16, 1932) is a Greek prose writer, short story writer, screenwriter and former president of the Academy of Athens.


He also dealt with playwriting and translation - partner of the Art Theater of Karolos Koon -, as well as with the film script. The translations of Euripides' tragedy Troaditisses and Aeschylus' Oresteia were presented by the "Karolos Koun" Art Theater in Epidauria (1979-1980), directed by Karolos Koun. He has written the scripts for the films "While the train whistled", "Trojan horse" and in collaboration with others he also wrote the scripts for the films ", Days of '36, Trip to Kythera", The meteoric step of the stork, etc. From 1974 to 1975 he lived in West Berlin and in 1976 in the USA, invited respectively by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdiens [German Academic Exchange Service]t and the International Writing Program.


He was general manager of E.R.T. (1989-1990) and president and managing director of the Hellenic Film Center 2005 - 2006 with Vassilis Mazomenos as vice president. He is a regular member of the Academy of Athens, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Akademia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea), the International Theater Institute, the Society of Greek Playwrights and the Writers' Society, of which he was president for five terms. Thanasis Valtinos was President of the Academy of Athens. He has been honored with the screenplay prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the film Journey to Kythera (1984) and with the state novel prize for his book Elements for the 60s (1990), with the international Cavafy prize (2001) and the of the Academy of Athens "Petros Haris" (2002). In 2002 he was awarded the golden cross of the Order of Honor of the Hellenic Republic.

Information

Known For
Writing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1932-12-16 (91 years old)

Birth Place
Karatoulas, Arcadias, Greece

Citizenships
Greece

Residences
Athens, Greece

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