Nana Isaia or Issaia ( el, Νανά Ησαΐα) (1934–2003) was a Greek poet, painter and translator. Her poetry was translated into English, Russian and Italian. She translated work by

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, Sylvia Plath,

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and

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into Greek.

Life

Nana Isaia was born in

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in 1934. After high school she studied at a London secretarial school for a year, before returning to work as secretary to the Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis. In 1960 she studied for four years at the Vakalo College of Art and Design. Isaia then lived on the island of

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for four years, where she came to know Leonard Cohen. In 1974 she had a one-person show of her paintings. She died on 22 January 2003.

Works

* ''Poemata'' oems 1969. * ''Persona''. 1972. * ''Ena vlemma'' Glance 1974. * ''Meres kai nychtes choris semasia'' ays and Nights Without Significance 1977. * ''e Alike ste chora ton thavmaton'' lice in Wonderland 1977 * ''Morphe'' orm 1980. * ''Sten taktike ton pathon'' n the Tactic of Passion 1982. * ''Synaisthese lethes'' onsciousness of Oblivion 1982.

References

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