Vassilis Vassilikos was born in
Kavala on 18 November 1933. His parents were from the island of
Thasos. His father, Nikolaos Vassilikos, was a lawyer and MP for the
Liberal Party. He finished high school in Kavala and then studied law at the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Afterwards, he studied television directing at
Yale University's Drama School and moved to Athens to work as a journalist. Because of his political activities, he was forced into exile for seven years following the
coup of 1967. He continued to live and work abroad until his permanent return to
Greece in 1994. From 1981 to 1984, Vassilikos served as the deputy director of the
Greek state television channel
ERT. From 1996 to 2004, he served as Greece's ambassador to
UNESCO. Vassilikos was married twice. His first marriage was with a woman named Mimi, with whom he founded a publishing house. They later divorced because she became a nun. In 1983, he married a lyrical singer, Vasso Papantoniou (born 1939), with whom he had a daughter, Evridiki. He died on 30 November 2023, at the age of 90. He was buried at the
First Cemetery of Athens on 4 December. Vassilikos is survived by his wife and daughter. == Work ==