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