Vangelis Raptopoulos

Vangelis Raptopoulos (Greek: Βαγγέλης Ραπτόπουλος) (born 1959, Athens, Greece) is a Greek novelist. His first work In Pieces was published in 1979, at the age of 20. From 1980 to 1981 he lived in Sweden and in 1984 spent a half-year in the United States on an International Writing Program scholarship.
His first two books have been adapted for the television, while The Bachelor was brought to the screen and became a major box-office hit (more than 150.000 viewers). The Cicadas came out in English and The Incredible Story of Pope Joan in Italian. He has published more than 20 books.
He has worked as a consultant in Greek publishing houses, a scenario consultant on various television channels, a newspaper columnist, a screenwriter, a producer and speaker on radio programs. His personal archive has been donated to the Gennadius Library.

• Κομματάκια (In Pieces), 1979
• Διόδια (Toll Post), 1982
• Τα τζιτζίκια (The Cicadas), 1985
• Η αυτοκρατορική μνήμη του αίματος (The Imperial Memory of Blood), 1992
• Ο εργένης (The Bachelor), 1993
• Έμμονες ιδέες (Obsessions), 1995
• Λούλα (Loula), 1997
• Το παιχνίδι (The Game), 1998
• Βαθύς και λυπημένος, όπως κι εσύ (Sad and Deep As You), 1999
• Η απίστευτη ιστορία της Πάπισσας Ιωάννας (The Incredible Story of Pope Joan), 2000
• Μαύρος γάμος (Black Wedding), 2001
• Ακούει ο Σημίτης Μητροπάνο; (Does Simitis Listen to Mitropanos?), 2001
• Η δική μου Αμερική (My Own America), 2002
• Η γενιά μου: Κομματάκια, Διόδια, Τα τζιτζίκια (My Generation: In Pieces, Toll Post, The Cicadas), 2003
• Η επινόηση της πραγματικότητας (The Invention of Reality), 2003
• Χάσαμε τον Μπαμπά (We Lost Dad), 2005
• Λίγη Ιστορία της Νεοελληνικής Λογοτεχνίας (A Bit of History of Modern Greek Literature), 2005
• Φίλοι (Friends), 2006
• Αρχαία συνταγή: Ηρόδοτος, Ηράκλειτος, Λουκιανός (Ancient Recipe: Herodotus, Heraklitus, Lucian), 2006
• Η Μεγάλη Άμμος (The Great Sand), 2007
• Απέραντα άδειο σπίτι (Endlessly Empty House), 2009
• Ιστορίες της Λίμνης: Το παιχνίδι, Βαθύς και λυπημένος όπως κι εσύ, Απέραντα άδειο σπίτι (Τales of Limni: The Game, Sad and Deep As You, Endlessly Empty House), 2011
• Η υψηλή τέχνη της αποτυχίας (The High Art of Failure), 2012
• Η πιο κρυφή πληγή (The Most Secret Wound), 2012