Comments on: Gregory

By: haris ioannides

haris ioannides — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:06:17 +0000

Hello, My name is Haris Ioannides, Panos’s son and also his publisher. Was very glad to see this post and I’d like to raise, if I may, a couple of points. It is true that its a relatively common name and I’d like to point out its another person with the same name serving as the Cyprus Refugees Union. This Panos is the President of the Cyprus P.E.N. Center. In addition, we are currently in the process of updating his international profile by including his bio into wikipedia and other online fora. ‘Gregory’ is part of an anthology we brought out in 2009, “Gregory and other stories”. If you’d like to see his full bio, we have created an authors page on amazon. Please let me know if this information is helpful.

By: Clare

Clare — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:24:46 +0000

Phenomenal story; beautifully read. From the riveting beginning to the murderous, bloody end, I was thoroughly captivated. I must have re-listened to it three times since then. Thank you, Miette, for this fantastic masterpiece of a short story…

By: e.lee

e.lee — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:59:51 +0000

had a Cypriot friend mention ‘Gregory’ to me several years ago

thanks for posting, I;d never have found this story elsewhere

By: miette

miette — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:28:40 +0000

Thanks Chris!

That’s way better than what I found, which I’ve posted here:

http://miette-reads.posterous.com/more-about-panos-ioannides

I’m more intrigued by the minute.

And CJ, you’re right– the name turns up everywhere. Although the more I learn about our Panos, the more I wonder if he’s just exceptionally prolific, and all these signs point back to him. That’d be -something-.

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Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:42:30 +0000

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By: chris

chris — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:55:16 +0000

This tiny 2004 article might amuse you-

http://www.xak.com/main/newsshow.asp?id=35466

if only for his opponent’s classic rebuttal “Panos Ioannides complains about everything.” Other than that, I can’t find anything. Great story, though.

By: CJ

CJ — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:09:56 +0000

Unfortunately it seems like a rather common name in Greek. “ΠΑΝΟΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΙΔΗΣ” returns pianos and real estate, among other things.

By: miette

miette — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:06:50 +0000

Thanks Jim– I did find these few paragraphs, but was surprised that that’s -all- I could find! There is a little acknowledgement in the anthology from which I plucked the story, but his seems far too meaty of a story for it to have so little a presence online.

Keep your eyes peeled!
xo
– Mtte.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:49:27 +0000

From Wadworth.com…Panos Ioannides was born in 1935 in Cyprus. Ioannides grew up during a tumultuous period in Cyprus’s history and he often draws on the political conflict that surrounded him during this period when writing his plays, novels, and short stories.

Ioannides story “Gregory” is one of his most famous works. “Gregory” was first published in 1963 and is based on a real incident that took place during the Cypriot Liberation struggle against the British in the late 1950s. The narrator of the story is forced to kill Gregory, a friend who has saved the narrator’s life.

Today, Ioannides also serves as president of the Cyprus Refugees Union.