Panagis Batistatos was born in Athens (Greece) in 1900; he studied Law. His first short story was published in 1916 in the journal Ellin. Another short story of his, “I arrostia kai o thanatos tis Zinas”, narrating the painful experience of the death of his three-year old sister, was included in the anthology Oi neoi diigimatografoi of A. D. Papadimas (1923). Batistatos died in Athens in 1923.