Novelist, playwright and poet Alexis Stamatis died on Monday at the age of 66 following a rare blood disorder.
Born in Athens, Stamatis was the son of architect Kostas Stamatis and actress Betty Arvaniti. He studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens before completing postgraduate studies in architecture and cinema in London.
Over the course of his career, he published 20 novels and a total of 34 books, establishing himself as one of Greece’s most prolific contemporary writers.
His work spanned novels, poetry, theatre, as well as scripts and libretti. Among his best-known novels are “Bar Flaubert,” “Villa Combray” and “American Fugue.” The latter received the First International Literary Award from the US National Endowment for the Arts and was also published in English.
Stamatis’s works were translated and published in numerous countries, and from 2017 he was a regular contributor to To Vima newspaper.
