Vassilis Papatheodorou

Vassilis Papatheodorou was born in Athens in 1967. He attended the German School of Athens and went on to study Metallurgy and Chemical Engineering. Six of his books for children and teenagers (The message, The nine Caesars, Breath on the window pane, Loud louder loudest, The long journey of the Chinese duck, Flying pages) are taught on the postgraduate Public Education training course at the University of the Aegean. He has won the State Children’s Literature Prize on two occasions (2008, 2010) and the Diavazo Prize on two more (2008, 2010)—for Breath on the window pane and Loud louder loudest respectively. He has won a further six literary prizes for his work from the Greek Children’s Book Circle, the Women’s Literary Association and the Cypriot Board for Young and Young Adult Literature.

Bibliography by Kastaniotis Editions S.A:

• The lords of the dump, 2012