Zachos Hatzifotiou turns 99 in a few days
A few days before his 99th birthday, the journalist and writer, Zachos Hatzifotiou, is hospitalized at NIMTS hospital. By his side is his family, but also his dear friends, who wish that this time he will succeed.
Zachos Hatzifotiou was born in 1923 and is a journalist and writer. Originally from Psara, his family left the island in 1824, after its destruction by the Turks and settled first in Syros and finally in Athens, in Plaka, where Zachos was born on September 28, 1923.
He graduated from the Experimental School of the University of Athens. In the occupation, at the age of 17, he escaped to Egypt, where he took part in military operations, first as a soldier in the Desert Pontiacs, in the siege of Tobruk, and then participating in the 3rd Mountain Brigade – Rimini, which entered Rimini first, where and was decorated.
In December, the brigade under his command undertook the expulsion of a small pocket of the EAM that had taken refuge near the stream of Ardittos without casualties, as he claims.
After the end of the war and his return he worked in his family’s businesses (textile industry and trade) until 1956. From 1956 until 1962 he was the director of a publishing house in Paris. In the period 1962-1970 he was active in shipping and from 1970 he now appears as a writer and journalist.
Chronographer in the newspaper “Kathimerini” (1974-1977), in “Tachydromos” under the pseudonym “Iakchos” from 1975 and in “Nea” as “the Distinctive” from 1977. He worked on television and became known from the show “The five minutes by Zachos Hatzifoti”.
He is the author of the books “Ta en iko… en Dimo”, “Consciousness is for sale”, “It’s also cloudy in Mykonos”, “Always on Sunday”, “Iakhos and I”, “100 broadcasts”, “Humor and painting”, ” The Paths of War” and others.
Zachos Hatzifotiou became more widely known from the television five-minute social critique and as a cosmographer, a “bon vivre” with many memories of Athenian life. He speaks English, French, Arabic and Italian.
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