Nikos Gkikas was born in Athens, Greece, in 1975. He still lives there, struggling to make a living as a freelance writer, editor and translator. As a child, he over-passed kids-literature and straightly entered adult-fiction through Agatha Christie's, Alfred Hitchcock's and Edgar Alan Poe's work. Inspired to be a rule-breaking filmmaker, he studied screenwriting rules by the side of Antonis Kehagias, (freelancer story-teller and screenwriter in Columbia Pictures and Instituto delle Scienze Cinema ed Audovisive, Florence) during a 24 months course (2001-2002).
His first novel "The Murderer's Last Will" was published in 2019, by Bell Editions.
In 2021 his first play, "Flatiron", was published by Theodosis Papadimitropoulos Editions, followed by another, "The Great Vesper", in 2022.