Thanasis Valtinos (December 16, 1932) is a Greek prose writer, short story writer, screenwriter and former president of the Academy of Athens. He also dealt with playwriting and translation - partner of the Art Theater of Karolos Koon -, as well as with the film script. The translations of Euripides' tragedy Troaditisses and Aeschylus' Oresteia were presented by the "Karolos Koun" Art Theater in Epidauria (1979-1980), directed by Karolos Koun. He has written the scripts for the films "While the train whistled", "Trojan horse" and in collaboration with others he also wrote the scripts for the films ", Days of '36, Trip to Kythera", The meteoric step of the stork, etc. From 1974 to 1975 he lived in West Berlin and in 1976 in the USA, invited respectively by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdiens [German Academic Exchange Service]t and t...read more