A r i s  M a r a n g o p o u l o s (often spelled Maragkopoulos, an exact transliteration of the greek Μαραγκόπουλος) is a Greek author, literary critic and translator. Born in Athens, Greece, 1948. He studied History and Archeology at the University of Athens, History of Art and Archeology at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne.

He is one of the few modernist / postmodernist writers of prose in Greece and has been writing since the early eighties.[1] Most of his novels deal with the Utopian idea of communal love as a means of civil disobedience and some of them include whole pages or, in some cases, whole chapters, written in an elective modernist style resembling a poème en prose.
Vassilis Vassilikos, author of the novel Z,[2] has commented on Maragkopoulos' political novel Obsession with Spring[3]: «It is the outcome of a difficult journey through the clashing rocks of James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges, a fruitful journey that made him rediscover Honoré de Balzac’s gold… A fantastic political thriller, an anatomy of the country we call Hellas, a novel that opens a wide discussion amid the reading community since it re-reads our recent history»[4]. (We cannot hold with certainty if that critical position is valid. One has to judge for himself by reading that specific novel).

Maragkopoulos is considered an authority on James Joyce in Greece.[5] Should the occasion arise he repeatedly declares that from early youth he had been inspired by Karl Marx, Pablo Picasso and Joyce. He has written in fact three books and many articles on the latter 's work.[6] His most important study, 'Ulysses', A reader's guide is principally an attempt to interprete James Joyce 's Ulysses through affinities to its Homeric counterpart, the Odyssey – affinities justified by rich documentation.  Exegetic suggestions in response to central issues of the Joycean critical literature are also seriously treated in the volume documented as they are in a thorough textual and intertextual analysis of the original.[7]
His Joycean studies have influenced his personal critical understanding of modern and contemporary prose in Greece: his writings over the years insist on a total re-mapping of the reception of literature in his HOMELAND.[8]

Aris Maragkopoulos has served for two consecutive terms as Secretary Executive of the Hellenic Authors' Society, a painful  experience that caused a permanent trauma deep into his delicate personality.

His novel Love, Gardens, Ingratitude has been translated into Serbian, his Obsession with Spring into Turkish, his short novel Nostalgic Clone into English[9] and various texts and articles into English, French, Turkish and Serbian.

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