V. P. Karagiannis was born in Lefkopigi, Kozani in 1953. He studied at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and practiced law. Since 1984, he has been publishing and directing the intellectual journal “Paremvasi,” one of the longest-running literary magazines, which in 2014 was awarded the State Prize for Literature by the Ministry of Culture and Culture. From 1996 to 2003, he served as the director of the Institute of Book and Reading and the Municipal Library of Kozani, during Kozani’s tenure as the “City of Books.” He has edited more than 100 books and published over 30 of his own. He organized numerous events of mainly intellectual interest and is a member of the Society of Authors and the Society of Writers of Thessaloniki.
Some of his books include: “Peregrination Endon,” “The 6.6 of the Tentpegia” (short stories), “Esoteric Slowness” (poetry), “Fifteen Days” (chronographs), “The Maps of Our Dreams” (narratives), “All-Weather Prologues,” “Serial Sins in Athos” (short stories), “The Colour of Nostalgia” (short stories), “Travel in Books, Apprenticeship in Travel” (1995-2003 Municipal Library of Kozani and the Institute of Book and Reading), “Confused Loves” (short stories), “The Scaly Triangle of Sin” (short stories), “Hedon(a)vlepsies” (short stories), “United Secrets” (short stories), “That April of a Thousand ‘967’,” “War Incidents and Working Memories,” “A Visitor from the West,” “Dickensianisms on Paper,” “Harmodius without Aristogeton,” etc.