- Deathday
- 1979-11-05
- Place of Birth
- Athens, Greece
Kostas Kotzias
WritingBiography
Kostis Kotzias (Athens, 1921 – Moscow, 5 November 1979) was a Greek prose writer and playwright. His best-known work is The Smoked Sky, which was also made into a television series on ERT in 1985. He was the brother of fellow writer Alexandros Kotzias. Kostas Kotzias was born in Athens, the firstborn son of Panagiotis Kotzias from Dimitsana and Xena née Alexandropoulou from Chalkida. His brother is also the writer Alexandros Kotzias. The Kotzias family was wealthy, but was financially devastated during the German occupation, as his father had already died in 1936. He finished high school at L...
