Yannis Yfantis is a
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poet
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who is awarded with the
Cavafy
Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis ( ; 29 April ( OS 17 April), 1863 – 29 April 1933), known, especially in English, as Constantine P. Cavafy and often published as C. P. Cavafy (), was a Greek poet, journalist, and civil servant from Alexandria. A ...
Award. He was born in 1949 in
Raina near
Agrinio
Agrinio (Greek language, Greek: Αγρίνιο, ; Latin: ''Agrinium'') is the largest city of the Aetolia-Acarnania regional units of Greece, regional unit of Greece and its largest municipality, with 89,691 inhabitants (2021) as well as the seco ...
in
Aetolia-Acarnania
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. He was presented to the
Thessaloniki Public Broadcasting with ''Elliniki kai pagkosmia poiisi'' (''Ελληνική και παγκόσμια ποίηση'' = ''Greek And International Poetry'') and ''Kata vathos to thema ine ena'' (''Κατά βάθος το θέμα είναι ένα''). His poems were translated into several languages including
English
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Poetry
*''Mystiki tis Anatolis'' (''Μυστικοί της Ανατολής'' = ''Secrets From The East'') (1980)
*''Ancient
Edda
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'' (1983)
*''O Kathreftis tou Protea'' (''Ο Καθρέφτης του Πρωτέα'' = ''The Mirror of Protea'') (1986])
*''Naos tou Kosmou'' (''Ναός του Κόσμου'' = ''The Temple Of The World'') (1996)
*''O Kipos tis Poiisis'' (''Ο Κήπος της Ποίησης'' = ''The Garden Of Poetry'') (2000)
*''Arhetypa'' (''Αρχέτυπα'' = ''Archetype'') (2001)
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Modern Greek poets
1949 births
Living people
20th-century Greek poets
Date of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Greek male writers
21st-century Greek poets
21st-century Greek male writers
People from Agrinio