He had a rich writing work from the 60s to the present day – He was the president of the Academy of Athens
The award-winning author passed away on Wednesday at the age of 92 Thanasis Valtinos. He was a member of the Academy of Athens and was elected its president in 2016.
It appeared in letters in the 1950s and established itself in the following years with great books discussed, such as “Orthokosta”, “Synaxari of Andreas Kordopatis” and “Deep Blue, Almost Black”.
He was born in Karatoula Kynouria.
During the occupation and the civil war his family moved to different cities. Since 1950 he has lived in Athens, where he attended courses at the Political Science department of Panteion University and at a film school.
He first appeared in literature in 1958 with the short story “Katakalokiro” in a competition of the magazine Tachydromos.
In 1963 he published the short story “The Descent of the Nine”, which referred to the civil war.
During the April dictatorship, he participated in the resistance publication “18 Texts”.
In 1994, the book “Orthokosta” was published, on the subject of the civil war, which caused intense debates.
He was also a collaborator of the Art Theater of Karolos Koun, but also of Theodoros Angelopoulos. He was even honored with the screenplay prize at the Cannes festival for Voyage to Kythira directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos in 1984.
Finally, he collaborated with magazines such as Thachydromos, Epochs, The Continuity, The Word, The Read, Ausblicke, Anti and Map, as well as newspapers (Daily, Avgi).
In 2022 the President of the Republic had decorated 11 important personalities of letters and the arts, among them Thanasis Valtinos.
For the award-winning author, he emphasized that he “enriched our secretariat with a work in which history, politics and society are strongly intertwined with ego and individuality. With his narrative austerity, the deluge of his pages with the action and passions of ordinary people, the pioneering use of evidence as literary material, but above all with the ministry of the Greek language in a way capable of restoring its freedom from the estuary to the its sources, changed the course of the modern Greek novel”.
Source: Skai
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