Nikos Karouzos () was a Greek modernist poet. He was born in Nafplion on 17 July 1926 and died in

Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ...

on 28 September 1990. He published his first poems in 1949. He also wrote literary criticism and essays on the

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a Stage (theatre), stage. The performe ...

and art. He was awarded the State Poetry Prize twice, in 1972 and 1988. His ''Collected Poems'' were published in 2004 by Shoestring Press (Nottingham, England, UK), translated by Philip Ramp. In the poetry of Karouzos, a fusion of the religious dimension of life with the ideological one was identified, and at the same time the lyrical element renewed its lyricism on the foundations of classical romanticism. His poetics significantly shaped modern Greek poetry and at the same time defined the style and ethos of contemporary Greek-speaking poetry of the Left.

External links

Short biography and poems''Homo Graecus''
article in the newspape
''To Vima''
4 April 1999.

Poems of N.K. in the ''Center for Neo-Hellenic Studies''

"Stones of Dreams" about Nikos karouzos' poetry, by Dimitris Kalokyris. 1926 births 1990 deaths Modern Greek poets People from Nafplion 20th-century Greek poets {{Greece-poet-stub