Awards & Winners

Alexis Kouros

Date of Birth 1961
Place of Birth Iran
(Middle East, Asia, Eurasia)
Nationality Finland, Iran
Profession Writer
Alexis Kouros is an Iranian-Finnish writer, documentary-maker, director and producer. His first book, Gondwana's Children, won the Finlandia Junior award in 1997. His first film was the 2000 documentary, Waiting for Godot at De Gaulle, the story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri. He also directed a documentary called Without My Daughter in response to the 1991 Hollywood movie, Not Without My Daughter. He started his production company Dream Catcher. The company started publishing Finland's first English language monthly called SixDegrees in 2003. Helsinki Times, a weekly English newspaper was established by Dream Catcher in April 2007.

Awards by Alexis Kouros

Check all the awards nominated and won by Alexis Kouros.

1997


Finlandia Junior award
Honored for : Children of Gondwana
(Illustrated by Alexander Reichstein.)