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Sotiris Trivizas
Sotiris Trivizas () (b. Corfu 1960) is a Greek poet, essayist and translator. He read Philology and journalism in Thessaloniki. He is a member of the Porfiras literary magazine editorial board.ΤΡΑΙΝΟ (Συγγραφείς - Μέλη)


Works


Poetry

*''Το κέλυφος'' (The Shell), 1982 *''Κίβδηλο φεγγάρι'' (False Moon), 1984 *''Βίος Ασωμάτων και άλλα ποιήματα'' (Life of the bodiless and other poems), 1991


Essays

*''Το σουρρεαλιστικό σκάνδαλο. Χρονικό της υποδοχής του υπερρεαλιστικού κινήματος στην Ελλάδα'' (The Surrealist Scandal. Chronicle of the reception of the surrealist mo ...
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Corfu
Corfu ( , ) or Kerkyra (, ) is a Greece, Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian Islands; including its Greek islands, small satellite islands, it forms the margin of Greece's northwestern frontier. The island is part of the Corfu (regional unit), Corfu regional unit, and is administered by three municipalities with the islands of Othonoi, Ereikoussa, and Mathraki. The principal city of the island (pop. 32,095) is also named Corfu (city), Corfu. Corfu is home to the Ionian University. The island is bound up with the history of Greece from the beginnings of Greek mythology, and is marked by numerous battles and conquests. Ancient Korkyra (polis), Korkyra took part in the Battle of Sybota which was a catalyst for the Peloponnesian War, and, according to Thucydides, the largest naval battle between Greek city states until that time. Thucydides also reports that Korkyra was one of the three great naval powers of Greece in the fifth century BCE, along with Classical Athens, At ...
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Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese ( ; ; 9 September 1908 – 27 August 1950) was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist. He is often referred to as one of the most influential Italian writers of his time. Early life and education Cesare Pavese was born in Santo Stefano Belbo, in the province of Cuneo. It was the village where his father was born and where the family returned for the summer holidays each year. He started primary school in Santo Stefano Belbo, but the rest of his education was in schools in Turin. He attended Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio in Turin for his sixth form/senior high school studies.Ward, David. "Primo Levi's Turin." In: Gordon, Robert S.C. (editor). ''The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi'' (Cambridge Companions to Literature). Cambridge University Press, 30 July 2007. , 9781139827409. CITED: p11 His most important teacher at the time was Augusto Monti, writer and educator, whose writing style attempted to be dev ...
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Greek Male Poets
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Greek Essayists
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1960 Births
It is also known as the " Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * January 1 – Cameroon becomes independent from France. * January 9– 11 – Aswan Dam construction begins in Egypt. * January 10 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the "Wind of Change" speech for the first time, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana). * January 19 – A revised version of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan ("U.S.-Japan Security Treaty" or "''Anpo (jōyaku)''"), which allows U.S. troops to be based on Japanese soil, is signed in Washington, D.C. by Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The new treaty is opposed by the massive Anpo protests in Japan. * January 21 ** Coalbrook mining disaster: A coal mine ...
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Napoleon Lapathiotis
Napoleon Lapathiotis (; 31 October 1888 – 7 January 1944) was a Greece, Greek poet. Biography Born in Athens, he began writing and publishing poetry when he was eleven. In 1907, along with others, he established the ''Igiso'' (''Ἡγησώ'') magazine, in which he published his works. In 1909, he graduated from the law school of the University of Athens. His only book of poems while alive was published in 1939; in 1964, Aris Diktaios published his poems posthumously. Lapathiotis was openly gay and had communism, communist beliefs. Poor in later life and an opium addict, he committed suicide with a revolver on 7 January 1944. He died in Athens. Legacy The 1985 film ''Meteor and Shadow'' was based on his life. Poems Famous poems by Lapathiotis include: * Τὰ καημένα τὰ πουλάκια * Τὰ χλωμά τὰ κοριτσάκια * Ἔχω ἕνα ἀηδόνι... * Ποιητής * Μυστικό... * Ἐπεισόδιο * Ἡ χαρά * Συντριβή * Ἀ ...
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Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti (; 8 February 1888 – 2 June 1970) was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. A leading representative of the experimental trend known as ("Hermeticism"), he was one of the most prominent contributors to 20th-century Italian literature. Influenced by symbolism, he was briefly aligned with futurism. Like many futurists, he took an irredentist position during World War I. Ungaretti debuted as a poet while fighting in the trenches, publishing one of his best-known pieces, ("The Joy"). During the interwar period, Ungaretti worked as a journalist with Benito Mussolini (whom he met during his socialist accession), as well as a foreign-based correspondent for and . While briefly associated with the Dadaists, he developed Hermeticism as a personal take on poetry. After spending several years in Brazil, he returned home during World War II, and was assigne ...
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Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello (; ; 28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italians, Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art". Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian language, Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd. Biography Early life Pirandello was born into an upper-class family in Girgenti (now Agrigento), Sicily, near the poor suburb of Porto Empedocle. His family's surname had originally been the Greek language, Greek "Pirangelos" (Greek language, Greek: ), which had been phonetically corrupted. Pirandello was of Greeks, Greek descent, as he noted himself in an interview to Kostas Ouranis in 1934. The area of his birth was called "Caos", from , Sicilian language, Sici ...
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Porfiras
''Porfiras'' () is a literary periodical published in Corfu since June 1980. The title of the periodical is a dialect word for "shark" taken from a poem of the same title by Dionysios Solomos. It is published on a quarterly basis. Notes External links
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