Dimosthenis Kourtovik

Who is Dimosthenis Kourtovik?

Dimosthenis Kourtovik is a Greek writer, literary critic and anthropologist. He studied biology in Athens and West Germany and specialized later on physical anthropology. In 1986, during Jaruzelski dictatorship, he obtained a doctoral degree from the University of Wroclaw, Poland, with a thesis on the evolution of human sexuality.

He has plied several occupations, from night watchman to university teaching, from translator to film and literary critic. In the period 1973–75 he was co-founder, director and actor of the "Greek Workers' Stage" in Stuttgart, Germany. Between 1990 and 1995 he taught at the University of Crete the subjects of history of human sexuality, sexual semiotics in art and animal behaviour. Today he works as literary critic for the Athens daily 'Ta Nea'.

He has published until now 17 books. He also has translated 63 books from eight foreign languages. Several of his novels and short stories were translated into German, French, English, Danish, Swedish, Czech, Romanian, Serbian and Bulgarian.