Pol Koutsakis writes novels, plays and screenplays.

He lives with his wife, daughter and son in Perth, Australia, right by the Indian Ocean.

Before that, they lived in Chania, Greece and before that in Ontario, Canada, near Niagara Falls.

ATHENIAN BLUES, Pol's first novel featuring the conscientious caretaker (i.e., hitman) Stratos Gazis was published by Bitter Lemon Press in 2017 in the UK, USA and Australia.

BABY BLUE, the second novel in the Stratos Gazis series, was published in 2018. Both novels take place in Athens, during the Greek Crisis. The novels are also published in Greece, by Patakis Publishers.

Pol's novel, FIRE, won in April 2023 the best young adult novel  of the year award by the Greek Department of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY).

Pol won the National Award for best Young Adult novel in Greece in 2016 for his novel JUST ONE BREATH. The same novel won the best YA novel of the year award in the literary magazine's "The Reader" annual awards.

JUST ONE BREATH is the second novel in the YA thriller "Trilogy of Crete". The first novel of the trilogy is A TIME FOR HEROEShand the third is WITH YOU GONE

Pol has also won the National Award for Playwriting in Greece in 2007 for his play The Rotation System. Other plays of his have been staged and won awards in New York and other cities in the United States, in the UK and in Greece.

His novel WHEN HE WAS HAPPY was released in March 2013. It is based on his award-winning play of the same title.  The novel focuses on the personal relationships, tragedies, betrayals and triumphs of  Eleftherios Venizelos (the most important Greek politician of the 20th century) and how they influenced his political career and the modern history of Greece.