Gregory Bekos

Gregory Bekos (1987) is a journalist, book reviewer, and literary editor based in Athens. He studied at Panteion University of Athens, Department of Communication, Media, and Culture. He has been working for more than ten years at “To Vima” [The Tribune], one of the country’s leading and most traditional newspapers, as a critic for both Greek and translated literature. His expertise lies in the field of foreign [translated] literature. He also covers and reports, in general, on theater, culture, and ideas. He has interviewed more than 100 acclaimed and award-winning authors and significant thinkers, Nobel Laureates (from Toni Morrison and Svetlana Alexievich to Annie Ernaux and Jon Fosse), Booker Prize Winners (from Margaret Atwood to John Banville and from Hilary Mantel to George Saunders and Anne Enright). He has also interviewed authors such as Don DeLillo, Richard Ford, Claudio Magris, and Amos Oz many times. His most recent interviews include David Grossman, James Ellroy, Fernando Aramburu, Bernhard Schlink, Georgi Gospodinov, Javier Cercas, Éric Vuillard, Emmanuel Carrère, etc. From 2015 until now, he works as the Foreign Literature Editor at Kastaniotis Editions in Athens, one of the leading literary publishers of Greece, the Greek publisher of Olga Tokarczuk.