Panos Ioannides

Panos Ioannides was born in Famagusta, Cyprus, in 1935. He studied Mass Communications and Sociology in the USA and Canada. He served as Director of Radio and Television Programmes at the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. He has been writing literature, mostly prose and theatre, since 1955. Works of his have been translated and published in their entirety or in parts in French, German, English, Russian, Romanian, Chinese, Hungarian, Polish, Serbo-Croat, Turkish, Persian, Bulgarian, Swedish, and other languages. His plays Gregory, Peter the First, The Suitcase, and Ventriloquists have been staged in Greece, England, USA and Germany. He served as Chairman of the Cyprus Theatre Organization (ThOK) Repertory Committee, and as President of the Cyprus PEN Centre. He lives in Nicosia, Cyprus.

PUBLISHED WORKS

PROSE

IN ETHERIAL CYPRUS, short stories, G.Fexis Publications, Athens, 1964

CYPRUS EPICS, short stories, P.K.I. Publications, Cyprus, 1968

KRONAKA, VOLUMES I & II, novellas and short stories, I.M. Publications, Cyprus 1970 and 1972

CENSUS, novel, I.M. Publications, Cyprus, 1973

Second edition, Ledra Publications, Athens, 1993

THE UNSEEN ASPECT, novellas and short stories, Kinyras Publications, Cyprus, 1979

THREE PARABLES BY NICOLAOS KEYS, journalist, novellas, Kinyras Publications, Cyprus, 1989

THE UNBEARABLE PATRIOTISM OF P.F.K., novel, Kinyras Publications, Cyprus, 1989

Second Edition, Kastaniotis Publications, Athens 1990

SAILING, VOLUMES I & II, novellas and short stories, Alassia Publications, Cyprus 1992

DEVAS, novel, Armida Publications, Cyprus 2006

AMERICA '62, novel, Armida Publications, Cyprus December 2007

PLAYS

PYGMALION AND GALATIA, Cyprus 1973

YOU, WHO DIED FOR THE LIGHT, Cyprus 1962

Revised edition, Armida Publications, Cyprus 2004

THREE PLAYS (The Bath, Ventriloquists, Gregory), Kinyras Publications, Cyprus 1973

ONESILUS, Proodos Publications, Cyprus 1981

THREE ONE-ACT PLAYS (The Suitcase, Dry Martini, Cousins), P.K.I. Publications, Cyprus 1984

PETER THE FIRST, P.K.I. Publications, Cyprus 1984

FOTINOS, Armida Publications, Cyprus 2000

MEMORIAL SERVICE, SIMAE Publications, Cyprus 2002

LEONTIOS AND SMYRNA, Armida Publications, Cyprus 2005-09-26

POETRY

SONG OF SHIGERU AND OTHER POEMS, Cyprus 1966

IN PARENTHESIS, Armida Publications, Cyprus 2000

ANTHOLOGIES

CYPRUS HIGHLIGHTS, with Leonidas Malenis, Cyprus 1963

ANTHOLOGY OF CYPRIOT SHORT-STORIES, with Andreas Christofides, I.M. Publications, Cyprus 1969

ANTHOLOGY OF THE EOKA STRUGGLE, I.M. Publications, Cyprus 1973

FACE OF AN ISLAND, 24 short stories from Cyprus in English, Armida Publications, Cyprus 1997

FACE OF AN ISLAND, 25 Cypriot poets translated in English, Armida Publications, Cyprus, 2000

TV AND CINEMA SCENARIOS

GREGORY: Directed by Evis Gavrielides, the televised version was shown by the CyBCTV, TV

Greece and other European TV Stations, as well as by the National TV Network of Australia.

ASINOU: A documentary on the Chapel of Asinou, directed by Panos Ioannides. This church belongs

to a group of nine Troodos Mountain Churches included in the World Heritage Monuments selected

by UNESCO. The documentary was shown in Cyprus, Greece and other countries.

THE TILLYRIA BOMBINGS: Documentary filmed by the writer in Tillyria district, Paphos, during the

bombing of this district of Cyprus by the Turkish air force in 1964.

KYRIAKOS MATSIS: Documentary on the life of the hero of the Cyprus liberation struggle, Kyriakos

Matsis.

PETER THE FIRST: Scenario for the historical TV series of eleven, forty-five minute episodes. The

series was shown in Cyprus and by the CyBC Satellite TV.

TROUBLED YEARS: Scenario for a TV series of the same name, in collaboration with Hera Genagritou.

It was shown on MEGA TV, Cyprus.

TRANSLATED WORKS

Works of Panos Ioannides have been translated and published in their entirety or in parts, in various

languages.

POEMS: French translation of Song for Shigeru and other poems. Translated by Gaston Henry Aufrére,

Edition Subervie, Rodez, France, 1968

PETROS I ODER DIE BALLADE DER ARODAFNUSSA: Translation of the play «Peter I». It was published in

German in 1987 by Romiosini Publishing House. Translated by Gudrun Rohr, it was staged the

same year by the Cologne Theatre «Comedia».

TROIS PARABLES DE NIKOLAOS KEIS - JOURNALIST: Translated by Helen Reboud, the prose book

«Three parables by N. Keys, journalist», was published in a bilingual edition by the University

of Nancy, France and the Editions «Praxandre», in 1996.

THE UNBEARABLE PATRIOTISM OF P.F.K.: The novel was published in Romanian by the Meronia Publishing

House, Bucharest, 2001

Short stories and novellas by Panos Ioannides have been published in the following anthologies

and magazines:

SHORT STORY INTERNATIONAL, New York, Issues 60, 62 and 98

SUDDEN FICTION, World short story anthology, Norton and Co, New York-London, 1992

THE STORY TELLER, International Prose Anthology, Edition Nelson, Canada, 1992

FOREIGN LITERATURE, Cyprus Prose Anthology in Chinese, Beijing 1988

ZYPRISCHEN MINIATUREN, Romiosini Publications, Cologne, 1987

KALIMERHABA, Trilingual Cyprus Prose and Poetry Anthology in German, Greek and Turkish,

Romiosini Publications, Cologne, 1992

CIPRUSI GOROG ELBESZELESEK, Cyprus Anthology in Hungarian, Europa Konyukiado Publishing,

Budapest, 1985

PROSE AND POETRY, Hellenica Chronica Publ., Paris 1993

GRIEKENLAND AAN ZEE, Anthology of Greek Literature in Dutch, Chimaira Publishing, Groningen,

Holland, 2001

LITERATURA DE LA ISLA DE CHIPRE, Anthology in Spanish, University de la Playa Ancha,

Chile, 2003

GREEK WRITERS TODAY, Volume I, Hellenic Authors Society Publ.

AWARDS

He has been awarded four National Prizes for Literature by the Cyprus Ministry of Education and

Culture for his works:

CYPRUS EPICS, short stories, 1968

CENSUS, Novel, 1973

THE UNSEEN ASPECT, short stories, 1979

THE UNBEARABLE PATRIOTISM OF P.F.K., novel, 1989

Prizes awarded for his theatrical plays:

GREGORY, 1st Prize at the 5th International Theatrical Festival, Sofia, 1976

ONESILUS, 1st Prize of the Cyprus Society of Playwrights, 1980

DRY MARTINI, 1st Prize of Cyprus National Theatre Organization, 1984

In 1992 Panos Ioannides was awarded the «Theodosis Pierides and Tefkros Anthias» Prize for his

contribution to Cyprus Literature.

In 2007 he won the highest award given by the Cyprus Ministry of Culture to a writer: Merit Award

for Letters and the Arts.