Acclaimed Greek author Menis Koumandareas has been found dead - apparently murdered - in his Athens home.

He was 83.

Though his cause of death was not yet determined, police said the author had wounds to his neck and face, which also showed evidence of asphyxiation.

Koumandareas wrote some 20 novels, short story collections and essays starting in the 1960s, and he twice won the state prize for novels.