Panos Ioannides

Panos Ioannides (Greek: Πάνος Ιωαννίδης; 22 March 1935 – 4 July 2021) was a Cypriot novelist and playwright.

Works of his have been translated and published in their entirety or in parts in French, German, Arabic, Japanese, English, Russian, Romanian, Chinese, Hungarian, Polish, Serbo-Croat, Turkish, Persian, Bulgarian, Swedish, Dutch, Spanish, and other languages.

His plays Gregory, Peter the First, The Suitcase, and Ventriloquists have been staged in Greece, England, USA and Germany.

Short stories and novellas by Panos Ioannides have been published in the following anthologies and magazines: He has been awarded five National Prizes for Literature by the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture for his works:[20] Prizes awarded for his theatrical plays: In 1992 Panos Ioannides was awarded the «Theodosis Pierides and Tefkros Anthias» Prize for his contribution to Cyprus Literature.

[26] In 2007 he won the highest award given by the Republic of Cyprus to a writer: Excellence in Letters, Arts and Sciences.