Manolis Pratikakis (; born 1943) is a

Greek Greek may refer to: 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 of all kno ...

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. He read

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at the

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; , ''Ethnikó kai Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the University of Athens (UoA), is a public university in Athens, Greece, with various campuses alo ...

and he is a practicing

neurologist Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the ...

and

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. His first collection of poems was published in 1974; he belongs to the so-called Genia tou 70, which is a literary term referring to

authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the

Greek military junta of 1967-1974 The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels was a right-wing military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. On 21 April 1967, a group of colonels with CIA backing overthrew the caretaker government a month before scheduled elections wh ...

and at the first years of the

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. For his collection of poems ''Το νερό'', in 2003, he received the Greek National Book Award.ΤΡΑΙΝΟ (Συγγραφείς - Μέλη)

Selected poetry

*''Ποίηση 1971-1974'' (Poetry 1971-1974), 1974 *''Οι παραχαράκτες'' (The Counterfeiters), 1976 *''Λιβιδώ'' (Libido), 1978 *''Η παραλοϊσμένη'' (The Demented), 1980 *''Γενεαλογία'' (Genealogy), 1984 *''Το νερό'' (The Water), 2002 *''Ποιήματα 1984-2000'' (Poems 1984-2000), 2003

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External links

His page at the website of the Hellenic Authors' Society (Greek)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pratikakis, Manolis 1943 births Living people National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni Cretan poets People from Ierapetra