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List Of Greek Writers
This is a list of Greek writers. The Ionian writers *Andreas Kalvos *Dionysios Solomos *Gregorios Xenopoulos The Romantic writers * Dimitrios Vikelas The New Athenian writers *Christos Christovasilis *Kostas Karyotakis *Napoleon Lapathiotis *Kostis Palamas *Alexandros Papadiamantis *Angelos Sikelianos *Gregorios Xenopoulos The 1930s *Penelope Delta *M. Karagatsis *Nikos Kavadias *Nikos Kazantzakis *Giannis Skarimpas The Surrealists *Nanos Valaoritis *Andreas Empeirikos *Nicolas Calas Greek writers from 1944–1974 *Aris Alexandrou *Manolis Anagnostakis *Odysseas Elytis *Nikos Karouzos * Melissanthi *Katina Papa *Giorgos Seferis *Yiannis Ritsos *Miltos Sachtouris *Takis Sinopoulos *Antonis Samarakis Modern Greek writers * Sam Albatros *Auguste Corteau *Nikos Dimou *Maro Douka * Justine Frangouli-Argyris *Kostis Gimossoulis *Alexandros Giotis *Panos Karnezis *Dimitri Kitsikis *Yannis Kondos *Dimosthenis Kourtovik *George Leonardos *Dimitris Lyacos * Christoforos Liontakis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek People
The Greeks or Hellenes (; el, Έλληνες, ''Éllines'' ) are an ethnic group and nation indigenous to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions, namely Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, and, to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. They also form a significant diaspora (), with Greek communities established around the world.. Greek colonies and communities have been historically established on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea, but the Greek people themselves have always been centered on the Aegean and Ionian seas, where the Greek language has been spoken since the Bronze Age.. Until the early 20th century, Greeks were distributed between the Greek peninsula, the western coast of Asia Minor, the Black Sea coast, Cappadocia in central Anatolia, Egypt, the Balkans, Cyprus, and Constantinople. Many of these regions coincided to a large extent with the borders of the Byzantine Empire of the late 11th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Calas
Nicolas Calas ( el, Νικόλαος Κάλας) (May 27, 1907 – December 31, 1988) was the pseudonym of Nikos Kalamaris (), a Greek-American poet and art critic. While living in Greece, he also used the pseudonyms Nikitas Randos () and M. Spieros (). Biography Nicolas Calas was born Nikos Kalamaris in Lausanne, Switzerland, May 27, 1907, but grew up in Athens, the only son of Ioannis Kalamaris who descended from a family of ship-owners and landowners from the island Syros, and Rosa Caradja who was the great-granddaughter of Markos Botsaris, the military leader and hero of the Greek War of Independence, and a descendant from the Phanariot Caradja family, a noble family which supplied high officials to the Ottoman Empire and rotating rulers to Danubian principalities. Calas later rebelled against his wealthy family background by becoming a Trotskyist, strongly influenced in his turn to radical politics by witnessing the human tragedy of the refugees of the 1922 Asia Minor ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Corteau
Auguste Corteau ( el, Αύγουστος Κορτώ, links=no; born 1979) is the pen name of the Greek author Petros Hadjopoulos (Πέτρος Χατζόπουλος). Early life Corteau was born in Thessaloniki, in 1979. Career In addition to the fourteen novels, novellas and short stories collections he has published over the years, he has also worked extensively as a translator, and has translated into Greek numerous works by English-language writers, amongst them books by Nabokov, Banville, Updike, Annie Proulx and Cormac McCarthy. In 2004 Corteau won the Greek National Book Award for Children's Literature and the IBBY Prize for Best Children's Novel. In 2014, he participated in the International Writing Program's Fall Residency at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA. His latest novel, ''The Book of Katherine'', chronicled his mother's lifelong struggle with bipolar disorder. It was adapted for stage by George Nanouris in 2014, starring Lena Papaligoura in the leadin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Albatros
Sam Albatros is a pseudonymous Greek-born author, queer artist and poetry translator. They wear masks and have never shown their face publicly. Early life and education Albatros was born and raised in rural Greece. They hold an MPhil in Psychology from University of Cambridge and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = � .... Career Their debut novel ''Faulty Boy'' and its stage adaptations'','' which focus on a gender nonconforming/queer child, have attracted mainstream Greek media attention. As an artist, they have presented video-art performances in Greece, Cyprus, UK, and Berlin. In May 2021, they took part in the Exchange Program Thessaloniki – Leipzig 2021, a two-month residency programme in Leipzig. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonis Samarakis
Antonis Samarakis (; August 16, 1919 in Athens – August 8, 2003 in Pylos) was a Greek writer of the post-war generation. His work explores themes related to humanism, the dangers of totalitarianism Totalitarianism is a form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual and group opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high if not complete degree of control and reg ... and alienation. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Samarakis, Antonis 1919 births 2003 deaths Writers from Athens Greek male writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takis Sinopoulos
Takis Sinopoulos ( el, Τάκης Σινόπουλος; Pyrgos, Elis, March 17, 1917 – Athens, April 25, 1981) was a Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ... poet and a leading figure among the so-called first postwar generation of Greek poets. A doctor by profession, he came of age at the beginning of perhaps the most terrible decade of Greece's recent history, running from the Metaxas dictatorship through war, occupation and the horrors of civil war, many of which he experienced at first hand.Ricks, David. "The Shadow of the Greek Civil War in the Poetry of Takis Sinopoulos", in ''The Greek Civil War'', edited by Philip Carabott & Thanasis D. Sfikas, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2004. These experiences, and their exorcism, inform much of his work, as did the colonels' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miltos Sachtouris
Miltos Sachtouris or Miltos Sahtouris ( el, Μίλτος Σαχτούρης: July 19, 1919, Athens – March 29, 2005, Athens) was a Greek poet. He was a descendant of Georgios Sachtouris, whose origins were the Island of Ydra. When he was young he abandoned his law studies to follow his real passion, poetry, adopting the pen name Miltos Chrysanthis. Sachtouris wrote his first poem, ''The Music Of My Islands'', under his pen name in 1941. Poetry Sachtouris met Nikos Engonopoulos in 1943. He later worked with Engonopoulos on ''Ikaros''. He began works and continued to pass time at the ''Brazilian'' on Voukourestiou Street along with Elytis, Sinopoulos, Vakalo, Papaditsas, Karouzos and others. In 1960, he published ''When I Talk to you'' and ''The Spectres, or Joy on the Other Street''. Two years later, he received the Second State Poet Prize in 1962 for ''The Stigmata''. He later wrote ''The Seal, or The Eighth Moon'' (1964) and ''The Utensil'' (1971) from the publishi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yiannis Ritsos
Yiannis Ritsos ( el, Γιάννης Ρίτσος; 1 May 1909 – 11 November 1990) was a Greek poet and communist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II. While he disliked being regarded as a political poet, he has been called "the great poet of the Greek left". Life Born to a well-to-do landowning family in Monemvasia, Ritsos suffered great losses as a child. The early deaths of his mother and eldest brother from tuberculosis, his father's struggles with a mental disease, and the economic ruin of his family marked Ritsos and affected his poetry. Ritsos himself was confined in a sanatorium for tuberculosis from 1927–1931. Literary start In 1934, Ritsos joined the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). He maintained a working-class circle of friends and published ''Tractor'' in 1934. Kostis Palamas, the well known and respected poet, impressed by his talent, praised him publicly. In 1935, he published ''Pyramids''; these two works sought to achieve a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgos Seferis
Giorgos or George Seferis (; gr, Γιώργος Σεφέρης ), the pen name of Georgios Seferiades (Γεώργιος Σεφεριάδης; March 13 – September 20, 1971), was a Greek poet and diplomat. He was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate. He was a career diplomat in the Greek Foreign Service, culminating in his appointment as Ambassador to the UK, a post which he held from 1957 to 1962. Biography Seferis was born in Vourla near Smyrna in Asia Minor, Ottoman Empire (now İzmir, Turkey). His father, Stelios Seferiadis, was a lawyer, and later a professor at the University of Athens, as well as a poet and translator in his own right. He was also a staunch Venizelist and a supporter of the demotic Greek language over the formal, official language (katharevousa). Both of these attitudes influenced his son. In 1914 the family moved to Athens, where Seferis completed his secondary school education. He continued his studies i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katina Papa
Katina Papa ( el, Κατίνα Παπά; 1903–1959) was a Greek writer. She became well known for her poetry and novels. Life She was born in the village of Janicat in the Ottoman Empire, today part of the Finiq municipality in southern Albania. Her family had to find refuge in the nearby island of Corfu because her father was accused by the local Ottoman authorities of participating in a local revolt. Katina Papa studied at the University of Athens and then became a teacher. Her writing is associated with her experiences as a teacher. Her first book ''Stin sikaminia apo kato'' (Under the Mulberry Tree) received the Academy of Athens award. Papa's main characters are mainly girls, such as Tasoula (in a novel with the same title), a servant girl from Corfu, where she dreams to live with her godfather in Athens. She writes to him about her dreams. He answers, but the girl cannot manage to open the letter, fearing that the answer might be negative. The distinguished author Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissanthi
Melissanthi ( el, Μελισσάνθη) was the pen name used by Eve Chougia-Skandalaki ( el, Ήβη Κούγια - Σκανδαλάκη; April 8, 1910 – November 9, 1991), a Greek poet, teacher and journalist. Some sources say that she died in 1990. Her first name also appears as Ivi or Hebe; her surname also appears as Koúyia or Koughia. She was born Eve Chougia in Athens and studied music, drawing, ballet and classical dance. From 1923 to 1924, she was in a Swiss sanitarium recovering from tuberculosis. She studied French, German and English at institutes in Athens. She went on to teach French in Athens high schools. She also contributed critical essays to newspapers and literary journals. In 1932, she married Giannes Skandalákis ( el, Ιωάννη Σκανδαλάκη). Her first poetry collection ''Phōnes entomou'' (Insect voices) was published in 1930. She went on to publish ten poetry collections. A collection of her poetry ''Ta poiimata tis Melissanthis 1930-1974' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikos Karouzos
Nikos Karouzos ( el, Νίκος Καρούζος) was a Greek modernist poet. He was born in Nafplion on 17 July 1926 and died in Athens on 28 September 1990. He published his first poems in 1949. He also wrote literary criticism and essays on the theatre and art. He was awarded the State Poetry Prize twice, in 1972 and 1988. External linksShort biography and poems article in the newspape ''To Vima'' 4 April 1999. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
