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He studied Medieval and Modern Greek Philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2000, he was accepted to Columbia University of New York as a Fullbright scholar, where he attended courses offered by the Department of Classical Studies, on the Modern Greek language, history and literature.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0So far, he has published 52 books consisting of poetry, prose, theatre, studies on different cities, landscapes and poets, as well as translations and anthologies.<\/p>\n<p>He has written fourteen plays which have been staged at the National Theatre of Greece, the State Theatre of Northern Greece, the Athens-Epidaurus Festival, the Philippi-Kavala Festival, the Art Theatre \u2018Karolos Koun\u2019, the Peiramatiki Skini\u00a0 \u2018Technis\u2019, the Tristan Bates Theatre in London with an English version of the play and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>His play <em>Yum-Yum (Food) <\/em>won the 2007 Karolos Koun Prize for Modern Greek play awarded by the Union of Greek Critics for Drama and Music.<\/p>\n<p>His play <em>Melted Butter<\/em> was one of the official proposals submitted in the 28<sup>th<\/sup> International Festival Sarajevo in 2012 by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and was also staged at Heidelberg St\u03cbckemarket (Heidelberg Market of Plays) in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>His play <em>Mission to Planet Earth<\/em> was awarded with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture Prize in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>His play <em>The Road Will Take You<\/em> is included in \u2018The top one hundred and twenty contemporary European plays\u2019 shortlist by the European Theatre Convention (ETC, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>His book <em>A Dinosaur on my Balcony<\/em> won the Greek State Prize for Children\u2019s Literacy in 2008.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His book <em>A Hole in the Water<\/em> was honoured with the \u201cPenelope Maximou\u201d prize by the Greek IBBY (International Board of Books for Young People) in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>His book <em>Thessaloniki in direct speech<\/em> (texts by Sakis Serefas, photographs from Haris Yiakoumis archive) received the Milos Prize for the best Greek photography book by the Kythira Cultural Society during the 5<sup>th<\/sup> Kythira Photographic Encounter and was also translated in French by Kallimages Publications.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote the script for <em>Ball-Bearing,<\/em> a feature film directed by Panos Karkanevatos (2004) which was screened during the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in 2005 as well as in Marche du Film (Film Market) during the Cannes Festival in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b><u>PLAYS<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Smith opens the door, 2019<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s snowing outdoors, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Live the Doubtful Life, 2014<\/p>\n<p>Aesop&#8217;s Comix 2, 2014<\/p>\n<p>Japan, 2014<\/p>\n<p>One vermicelli is enough, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Scarlet, 2013<\/p>\n<p>A Dinosaur on my Balcony, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Dragons, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Erinya with pincers, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Lives worth eating, 2010<\/p>\n<p>15 minutes, 2010<\/p>\n<p>What do you think, Babis?, 2010<\/p>\n<p>The Road will take you, 2010<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s single, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Seminar on stupidity, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Melted Butter, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Mission to Planet Earth, 2007<\/p>\n<p>Thessaloniki in direct speech, 2007<\/p>\n<p>Yum-Yum (Food), 2006<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>serefas.jpg<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Sakis Serefas was born in Thessaloniki in 1960, where he continues to live today. 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