Nanos Valaoritis was born on July 5, 1921 in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was a writer, known for
Epohes kai sygrafeis (2000),
Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man (2003) and
Voices from the Greek Underground (2013). He was married to Marie Wilson and
Anne Valery. He died on September 13, 2019 in Greece.