Anastasios (Tasos) Athanasiadis ( el, Τάσος Αθανασιάδης) son of Michael (November 1913 – 21 September 2006) was a writer and gownsman.

Biography

He studied law in the

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...

and practiced law in the period 1940–1945. In 1945 he got posted as Manager of the

National Theatre of Greece The National Theatre of Greece () is based in Athens, Greece. History The first permanent theatre in modern Greece had been the Boukoura Theatre from 1840, but it had difficulty in managing its operation and stood empty for long periods of t ...

Secretariat, and afterwards as general Manager, job that he retained until 1972. In 1994 he got nominated as honorary doctor of the School of Philosophy of the University of Athens. Greece honoured him with three National Prizes and the medal of the Order of the Phoenix and he also got honoured with the silver medal of the French Academy. He got famous from his writings '' The guards of the Achaea'' (two book novel, Academy of Athens Prize of the Urani Foundation), '' Pantheoi'' (trilogy novel in four books, Academy of Athens Prize -1961), '' The throne room'' (National novel Prize -1969), and '' The children of Niobe''. In 1986 he got elected as

Academy of Athens (modern) The Academy of Athens ( el, Ακαδημία Αθηνών, ''Akadimía Athinón'') is Greece's national academy, and the highest research establishment in the country. It was established in 1926, with its founding principle traces back to the ...

and serviced as president of the Urani Foundation, of the Palamas Foundation and of the İpekçi Literature Prizes.Audiovisual archive of greek channel ERT "Interview with Tasos Athanasiadis in the ''Nikterinos Episkeptis'' broadcast"
As a second language he spoke French and he was a resident of

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

Bibliography

#Dostoevsky, ''from the prison to the passion'' (National biography prize 1955), #Albert Schweitzer (National biography prize 1963), #Journey to the Loneliness (chronicle), #Three children of our century (biography chronicles), # The children of Niobe (novel), #The last grandsons (novel), #Pantheoi (novel), #The guards of the Achaea (novel), #The throne room (novel), #Anagnoriseis (essays), #The Son of the Sun (biography).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Athanasiadis Greek writers 1913 births 2006 deaths Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to Greece Recipients of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece) Members of the Academy of Athens (modern) Herder Prize recipients People from Salihli