He is currently editing a volume on mathematics and narrative with mathematician Barry Mazur, of Harvard University, due to be published in 2010.Īpostolos lives in Athens with his wife, the novelist Dorina Papaliou, and their children.

and the U.K.Īpart from his work in the various modes of storytelling, in the past few years, Apostolos has been studying the relationship between mathematics and narrative. Logicomix was published in Autumn 2009 by Bloomsbury in the U.S. The book's story is based on the epic quest for the foundations of mathematics. Papadimitriou, with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie di Donna. In autumn 2008, Apostolos, completed the graphic novel Logicomix, co-authored with Christos H. The play is a fictional recreation of the last days in the life of the great logician, and father of the incompleteness theorem, Kurt Gödel. In 2006, his play Seventeenth Night had a year-long run in an Athens theatre. In 1999, he wrote and directed the musical shadow puppet play 'The Tragical History of Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionist', accompanied by a volume of texts and images, Paralipomena. Apostolos now writes in both Greek and English.Īpart from his work in fiction, Apostolos has written two plays.

His translation of Uncle Petros was published internationally in 2000, to great critical acclaim, and has since been translated into over thirty languages.

He has published four novels in Greek, Parallel Life (1985), Makavettas (1988), Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (1992) and Three Little Men (1997).

Since the mid-eighties, most of Apostolos' work has been in fiction. His second film, Terirem (1986) won the prize of the International Center for Artistic Cinema (CICAE) at the 1988 Berlin International Film Festival. For some years he directed professionally for the theater, and in 1983 made his first film Underground Passage (in Greek). He did graduate work in Applied Mathematics at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, working on mathematical models for the nervous system.Īfter his studies, Apostolos returned to Greece and his adolescent loves of writing, cinema and the theater. Apostolos Doxiadis (Greek: Απόστολος Δοξιάδης) was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1953, and grew up in Greece.Īlthough interested in fiction and the arts from his youngest years, a sudden and totally unexpected love affair with mathematics led him to New York's Columbia University at the age of fifteen.

Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis