Kostas Arkoudeas was born in Athens in 1958. After various wanderings, he returned to the capital city and started working in the Ministry of Culture, where he still works today. He published work for the first time in 1986 with a collection of stories Let Bob Marley wait. He then published a trilogy The city of a thousand faces (1987) and a novel incorporating short stories The song of the tropics (1988). More novels followed: Passions according to the Aegean (1994), Never the same road (1999), The pirate (2003), Alexander the Great and his shadow (2004), God’s number (2008) and Fiery passion (2013). He also published two novellas, And take care not to turn to stone (1996), It’s still not too late (2014), and a collection of short stories Every day a Sunday (2000), a collection of short texts Little singles (2010) and a fairytale The colourful spinning-top (2013). The lost Nobel – A true story (2015).