Panos Ioannides

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 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, 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,[4] the Cyprus chapter of PEN International. He lives in Nicosia, Cyprus.

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[5]
• AMERICA 62: DE PROFUNDIS, Translated in Turkish by Lale Alatli, Published by Orm and Ruffel[6]
• AMERICA 62: DE PROFUNDIS, Translated in Arabic by Dr. Khaled Raouf, Published by Sefsafa Culture & Publishing[7]
• AMERICA 62: DE PROFUNDIS, Translated in Albanian by Kleo Lati, Published by OMBRA GVG [8]
• KOAZINOS, Translated in German by Michaela Prinzinger, Published by Verlag auf dem Ruffel[9]
• KOAZINOS, Translated in Arabic by Dr. Khaled Raouf, Published by Sefsafa Culture & Publishing[10]
• KOAZINOS, Translated in Turkish by Lale Alatli, Published by OPM and Ruffel[11]
• KOAZINOS, Translated in Serbian, Published by Karpos Books [12]
• KOAZINOS, Translated in Albanian by Kleo Lati, Published by OMBRA GVG [13]
• CENSUS, Translated in English by Despina Pirketti, Published by Armida Publications[14]
• CENSUS, Translated in Lithuanian by Dalia Staponkute, Published by Alma littera [15]
• DEVAS, Translated in German by Brigite Munch, Published by Groessenwahn Verlag[16]
• DEVAS, Translated in Turkish by Lale Alatli, Published by Orm and Ruffel[17]

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,[18] Anthology in Spanish, Universidad de la Playa Ancha, Chile, 2003
• GREEK WRITERS TODAY, Volume I, Hellenic Authors Society Publ.

He has been awarded five National Prizes for Literature by the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture for his works:[19]

• CYPRUS EPICS, short stories, 1968[20]
• CENSUS, Novel, 1973[21]
• THE UNSEEN ASPECT, short stories, 1979[22]
• THE UNBEARABLE PATRIOTISM OF P.F.K., novel, 1989[23]
• KOAZINOS, novel, 2012[24]

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.[25] In 2007 he won the highest award given by the Republic of Cyprus to a writer: Excellence in Letters, Arts and Sciences.[26] In 2009 Panos Ioannides was awarded the «George Philippou Pierides Prize» for his Prose Works, by the Union of Cypriot Writers[27]

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
• The Short Review - A J Kirby
• Αμερική, ένα κατόρθωμα στον τομέα της μυθιστοριογραφίας, περιοδικό Φρέαρ – του Χριστόδουλου Καλλίνου[28]
• Ο Πάνος Ιωαννίδης και η αθέατη όψη της Κύπρου - της Φραγκίσκης Αμπατζοπούλου[29]