NIKOS PASCHALIDIS, a lawyer and writer, was born in Thessaloniki, where he still lives today. He studied law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and English at the Pitman Examinations Institute in London. He entered the legal profession in 1963, serving as a Supreme Court lawyer from 1980 up until 2000, when he was awarded the title of Lawyer Emeritus. He dealt with citizenship issues as a legal consultant of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in northern Greece. He is a member of the Thessaloniki Writers' Association, the Society for Macedonian Studies, the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle and the Bar Association of Northern Greece.
He has written novellas, novels, histories and essays.

Ο Δέκατος Τρίτος Θεός, 1957,
"Ο Καζαντζάκης σα θέση και σαν άρνηση", 1958, Αυτοδικία, 1972, Υποψία Φόνου, 1972,
Επικίνδυνη Αυτάρκεια, 1973,
Νομοψύχωση, 1979, 1985, 1995,
Ο Λαβύρινθος, 1981, 1995, Παγίδα Για Σοφιστές, 1985, 1995, 2001,
Αεροπειρατεία και Πολιτικό Άσυλο, 1991,
Μακεδονική Ρουλέτα, 1993, 1995, 2003, Κωδικός: Πράκτωρ Μακεδών, 1995, 2003,
Ο Βρετανός Διοικητής Nicholas Hammond, 1995, 2003,
" Νομική Δομή Συμφωνιών ΕΟΚ και Βαλκανικών Χωρών", 1995, Κωνσταντίνος Αρμενόπουλος, Νομοφύλαξ και Κριτής Θεσσαλονίκης, 1996,
Βρετανική Διαμάχη και Ελληνική Αντίσταση, Ανατομία ενός αινίγματος, 1997,
Το Πανεπιστημιακό Άσυλο, 1999,
"Konstantinos Armenopoulos, Nomophylax and Justice of Thessaloniki. Analysis of the Diachronicity of His Work", 2000, Ο Μακεδονομάχος καπετάν Γιάννης Νταφώτης, 2006,
John le Carre, ο Ψυχογράφος των Κατασκόπων, 2006.
He received awards and distinctions from: the Thessaloniki Municipal Council in 1993 and 2003, from the Thessaloniki Bar Association in 1993 and 1996, from the Greek American Chamber of Commerce in 1994, from the Metropolitan Lions in 1995, from the Association of Publishers of Northern Greece in 1995 and 2000, from the Greek Writers' Association in 1995, from the Thessaloniki Municipal History Centre in 1996 and 1997, from the Hersonisos Municipal Council of Herakleion, Crete, and the Avdou Cultural Society of Hersonisos in 2003 and 2007.