Apostolos Doxiadis
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Born | Apostolos Doxiadis 6 June 1953 [citation needed] Brisbane, Queensland, Australia[citation needed] |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Greek, Australian |
Education | Columbia University École pratique des hautes études |
Period | 1983–present |
Genre | Novels, graphic novels |
Notable works | Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture, Logicomix |
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Apostolos K. Doxiadis (Greek: Απόστολος Κ. Δοξιάδης; born 1953) is a Greek writer. He is best known for his international bestsellers Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (2000) and Logicomix (2009).
Early life
Doxiadis was born in Australia, where his father, the architect
Work
Fiction in Greek
Doxiadis began to write in Greek. His first published work was A Parallel Life (Βίος Παράλληλος, 1985), a novella set in the monastic communities of 4th-century CE Egypt. His first novel, Makavettas (Μακαβέττας, 1988), recounted the adventures of a fictional power-hungry colonel at the time of the
Fiction in English
In 1998, Doxiadis translated into English, significantly re-working, his third novel, which was published in England in 2000 as
Doxiadis' next project, which took over five years to complete, was the graphic novel
Theatre and cinema
In the early stage of his career, Doxiadis directed in the professional theatre, in Athens, and worked as translator, translating, among other plays,
He has written two plays for the theatre. The first was a full-length shadow-puppet play The Tragical History of Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionist (1999), in English, of which he also designed and directed the Athens performance.[6] In this play, Doxiadis realized some of his views on "epic theatre", in other words a theatre based on storytelling.[7] His second play, Incompleteness (2005), is an imaginary account of the last seventeen days in the life of the great logician Kurt Gödel, which Gödel spent in a Princeton, New Jersey, hospital, refusing to eat out of fear that he was being poisoned. The play was staged in Athens, in 2006, as Dekati Evdomi Nyhta (Seventeenth Night) with the actor Yorgos Kotanidis in the role of Kurt Gödel.
Doxiadis has also written and directed two feature-length films, in Greek, Underground Passage (Υπόγεια Διαδρομή, 1983) and Terirem (Τεριρέμ, 1987). The latter won the
Scholarship
Doxiadis has a lifelong interest in logic, cognitive psychology and rhetoric, as well as the theoretical study of narrative.[8] In 2007, he organized, with mathematician Barry Mazur, a meeting on the theoretical investigation of the relationship of mathematics and narrative, whose proceedings were published as Circles Disturbed: The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative (2012).[9] Doxiadis has lectured extensively on his theoretical interests.[10][11] Doxiadis' recent work has led him to formulate a theory about the development of deductive proof in classical Greece, which lays emphasis on influences from pre-existing patterns in narrative and, especially, Archaic Age poetry.[12]
Awards and honours
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture was the first recipient of the Premio Peano
References
- ^ "Turning Geeks into Superheroes". Columbia College Today. Archived from the original on 2016-12-26.
- ^ "Biography | Apostolos Doxiadis". apostolosdoxiadis.com. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ^ http://1001beforeyoudie.com Archived 2014-01-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Logicomix, A Tour de Force « The Comics Journal". Archived from the original on 2013-09-16.
- ^ "Paul Gravett | 1001 Comics". Archived from the original on 2013-07-15.
- ^ Watch a performance, filmed by Doxiadis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJMyQ4Bkiow
- ^ Read his own views on the matter in an interview: [1]
- ^ Some of his published papers are reprinted here: "Proofs and Stories". Archived from the original on 2012-01-05. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
- ISBN 9780691149042.
- ^ "Welcome to the Royal Society | Royal Society".[dead link]
- ^ "Dabis Lecture - Apostolos Doxiadis 'From Mimesis to Aristotle for Screenwriters- and back'_001". Archived from the original on 2011-09-12. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
- ^ An earlier draft of a write-up of some of these ideas can be found at https://www.academia.edu/3222520/A_Streetcar_Named_among_Other_Things_Proof
- ^ Associazione Subalpina Mathesis – Premio Peano Archived November 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine