Panos Ioannides

Panos Ioannides (; 22 March 1935 – 4 July 2021) was a Cypriot novelist and playwright.

Biography

Panos Ioannides was born in Famagusta, Cyprus, in 1935. He studied Mass Communications and Sociology in the United States and Canada. He served as Director of Radio and Television Programmes at the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. He began writing literature, mostly prose and theatre, in 1955. Works of his have been translated and published in their entirety or in parts in French, German, Arabic, Japanese, English, Russian, Romanian, Chinese, Hungarian, Polish, Serbo-Croat, Turkish, Persian, Bulgarian, Swedish, Dutch, Spanish, 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 Cypriot PEN Centre, the Cyprus chapter of PEN International. He lives in Nicosia, Cyprus. Ioannides died on 4 July 2021, at the age of 86.

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 Απογραφή , 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 Τρείς Παραβολές , novellas, Kinyras Publications, Cyprus, 1989 THE UNBEARABLE PATRIOTISM OF P.F.K. Η Αβάσταχτη Φιλοπατρία του Π.Φ.Κ. , novel, Kinyras Publications, Cyprus, 1989 Second Edition, Kastaniotis Publications, Athens 1990 SAILING, VOLUMES I & II, novellas and short stories, Alassia Publications, Cyprus 1992 DEVAS Οι Ντέβα , novel, Armida Publications, Cyprus 2006 AMERICA '62: De Profundis Αμερική 62: De Profundis, novel, Armida Publications and AIORA PRESS, Cyprus and Greece December 2007 KOAZINOS Κοάζινος , novel, Armida Publications, Cyprus 2012

Plays

THE MAN FROM SALINA, Ο άνθρωπος από την Σαλίνα, Έκδοση περιοδικού «Κυπριακά Χρονικά» 1964, Cyprus 1964 PLAYS FROM THE BIBLE, Δραματάκια από τη Βίβλο. Εκδοση Πολίτη, Αθήνα 1970, Athens 1970 PYGMALION AND GALATIA, Cyprus 1973 YOU, WHO DIED FOR THE LIGHT Συ που σκοτώθεις για το φως , 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 FOTINOS Φωτεινός , Armida Publications, Cyprus 2000 MEMORIAL SERVICE, SIMAE Publications, Cyprus 2002 LEONTIOS AND SMYRNA Λεόντιος και Σμύρνα , Armida Publications, Cyprus 2005

Poetry

SONGS OF SHIGERU AND OTHER POEMS, Cyprus 1966 IN PARENTHESIS Εν Παρενθέσει... , 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 EUROPE IN CYPRIOT PROSE, Bilingual, Armida Publications, Cyprus 2006 EUROPE IN CYPRIOT ESSAY WRITINGS, Bilingual, Armida Publications, Cyprus 2006

Magazines

IN FOCUS , quarterly magazine, Cyprus PEN Centre DEC 2003 ~

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 POEMS: Japanese translation of Song for Shigeru and other poems. 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 FIVE NOVELAS: KINYRAS, GREGORIOS AND EFTHYMIOS, KING ALEXIS, KYPRIANI, PHOTOGRAPHS, Translated in Bulgaria by Georgi Konstantinov AMERICA 62: DE PROFUNDIS, Translated in German by Brigite Munch, Published by Verlag auf dem Ruffel AMERICA 62: DE PROFUNDIS, Translated in Turkish by Lale Alatli, Published by Orm and Ruffel AMERICA 62: DE PROFUNDIS, Translated in Arabic by Dr. Khaled Raouf, Published by Sefsafa Culture & Publishing AMERICA 62: DE PROFUNDIS, Translated in Albanian by Kleo Lati, Published by OMBRA GVG KOAZINOS, Translated in German by Michaela Prinzinger, Published by Verlag auf dem Ruffel KOAZINOS, Translated in Arabic by Dr. Khaled Raouf, Published by Sefsafa Culture & Publishing KOAZINOS, Translated in Turkish by Lale Alatli, Published by OPM and Ruffel KOAZINOS, Translated in Serbian, Published by Karpos Books KOAZINOS, Translated in Albanian by Kleo Lati, Published by OMBRA GVG CENSUS, Translated in English by Despina Pirketti, Published by Armida Publications CENSUS, Translated in Lithuanian by Dalia Staponkute, Published by Alma littera DEVAS, Translated in German by Brigite Munch, Published by Groessenwahn Verlag DEVAS, Translated in Turkish by Lale Alatli, Published by Orm and Ruffel

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, the Netherlands, 2001 LITERATURA DE LA ISLA DE CHIPRE, Anthology in Spanish, Universidad de la Playa Ancha, Chile, 2003 GREEK WRITERS TODAY, Volume I, Hellenic Authors Society Publ.

Awards

He has been awarded five 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 KOAZINOS, novel, 2012 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 Republic of Cyprus to a writer: Excellence in Letters, Arts and Sciences. In 2009 Panos Ioannides was awarded the «George Philippou Pierides Prize» for his Prose Works, by the Union of Cypriot Writers

Reviews and interviews

Reviews of his work and interviews are published regularly in the press. The most recent reviews include: Η τριλογία μιας γεμάτης ζωής - ΠΑΡΑΘΥΡΟ ΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ Δύο μυθιστορήματα κι ένας αιώνας ανάμεσά τους (Μέρος Α’) - Αλήθεια Online Δύο μυθιστορήματα κι ένας αιώνας ανάμεσά τους (Μέρος B’) - Αλήθεια Online

Αμερική, ένα κατόρθωμα στον τομέα της μυθιστοριογραφίας, περιοδικό Φρέαρ – του Χριστόδουλου Καλλίνου Ο Πάνος Ιωαννίδης και η αθέατη όψη της Κύπρου - της Φραγκίσκης Αμπατζοπούλου