Panos Ioannides (Πάνος Ιωαννίδης) was born in Famagusta, Cyprus, in 1935. He studied Mass Communications and Sociology in the USA 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, English, Russian, Romanian, Chinese, Hungarian, Polish, Serbo-Croat, Turkish, Persian, Bulgarian, Swedish, 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 Cyprus PEN Centre. He lives in Nicosia, Cyprus.
PUBLISHED 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, 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, novellas, Kinyras Publications, Cyprus, 1989 THE UNBEARABLE PATRIOTISM OF P.F.K., novel, Kinyras Publications, Cyprus, 1989 Second Edition, Kastaniotis Publications, Athens 1990 SAILING, VOLUMES I & II, novellas and short stories, Alassia Publications, Cyprus 1992 DEVAS, novel, Armida Publications, Cyprus 2006 AMERICA '62, novel, Armida Publications, Cyprus December 2007
PLAYS PYGMALION AND GALATIA, Cyprus 1973 YOU, WHO DIED FOR THE LIGHT, 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 PETER THE FIRST, P.K.I. Publications, Cyprus 1984 FOTINOS, Armida Publications, Cyprus 2000 MEMORIAL SERVICE, SIMAE Publications, Cyprus 2002 LEONTIOS AND SMYRNA, Armida Publications, Cyprus 2005-09-26 POETRY SONG OF SHIGERU AND OTHER POEMS, Cyprus 1966 IN PARENTHESIS, 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 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