Kostas Serezis

Kostas Serezis is a journalist. He was born in Limassol in 1937. He studied at the Drama School of Giorgos Arvanitakis and attended courses in electronic journalism in Glasgow and at the BBC in London on a British scholarship. He worked at RIK (1960-1974) and ERT (1975-1999). As a political editor, he covered events worldwide for Greek television. He taught television courses at a private school in Athens and at seminars organized by the Athens News Agency for the European Union. In print journalism, he had personal columns for years in the Nicosia newspaper O Phileleftheros. A selection of his publications was compiled in the book "Current Affairs (Meetings, People, Crises, Travels)," Nicosia 1971. In 1973, he released the review "Cyprus Chronicle '73" as a reprint from the "Chronicle '73" of the Artistic Spiritual Center "Ora." He authored the travelogue "Es Kypron," a journey through the free part of the island with photographs by Dimitris Talianis, including a retrospective on the history of Cyprus in the 20th century, which has been selected by Panteion University as a resource for students in international politics and Greek-Turkish relations. The publication also features contributions from three scholars (Topio Editions, Athens 1994). The same book, titled "To Cyprus," has been published in English. His other books relate to his activities in the field of visual arts: the album "Paris Prekas, My Journey" in a concise Greek and English art edition (Topio Editions, Athens 1997), and two smaller publications in the "Small Visual Library" series, one in Greek and English titled "Tsoklis: Stones and Seas" (Toubi Editions, Athens 2003) and the other in Greek and Italian titled "The Work of Petros and Giorgio de Chirico" (Salea Editions, Milan 2005). In his book "Mikis Theodorakis, the Universal" (Kastaniotis Editions, 2001), he narrates personal testimonies about the international impact of the composer's work. In 1970, he founded the "Argo Gallery" in Nicosia and in 1976 in Athens. In 1999, without belonging to any political party, he was invited by the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Glafcos Clerides, and served for six months as a government spokesperson. In 1998, he was honored with the "Konstantinos Kalligas" award by the Association of European Journalists, and in 2004, he was awarded by the Foreign Press Association in Athens.