Andreas Staikos was born in Athens in 1944. He has written and directed several works for the theatre: Daedalus (1971); Clytemnestra (1974); Karakoroum (1989); 1843 (1990); Olympia's Little Finger (1992) - (French translation: Le Petit Doigt d'Olympias, 1994); Ostrich Feathers (1994), Apple de Milo (1996) and Curtain (1999). His plays have been staged in Paris, Athens and Thessalonica. He has also translated a great number of French authors of the 18th and 19th centuries, including Laclos, Marivaux, Moliere and Labiche. His Greek translations of Laclos' Les Liaisons dangeureuses and works of Marivaux have all been published by Agra.