Nanos Valaoritis was born on July 5, 1921 in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is a writer, known for Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man (2003), Katerina Gogou: Gia tin apokatastasi tou mavrou (2012) and Fones apo to ypogeio (2013). He has been married to Marie Wilson since 1960. He was previously married to Anne Valery.