Manolis Anagnostakis
(Greece, 1925–2005)
Manolis Anagnostakis was born in Thessaloniki in 1925. He studied medicine and …
Constantine Cavafy
(Egypt, 1863)
In Alexandria, Egypt, on the southeastern periphery of the Greek diaspora where he …
Kiki Dimoula
(Greece, 1931)
Kiki Dimoula’s mature poetry added an altogether new dimension to Modern Greek poetry. …
Odysseus Elytis
(Greece, 1911–1996)
Odysseus Elytis, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Heraklion, …
Andreas Embiricos
(Romania, 1901)
Andreas Embiricos, whose family of international shipbuilders and shipowners come from …
Nikos Engonopoulos
(Greece, 1907)
Although Embeirikos’ poems were greeted with ridicule when they first appeared, they …
Nikos Fokas
(Greece, 1927)
Nikos Fokas was born in Kefalonia, an island in the Ioanian sea, in 1927. He studied …
Nikos Karouzos
(Greece, 1926–1990)
Nikos Karouzos was born in Nafplion in 1926 and died in Athens in 1990. He is …
Yorgos Markópoulos
(Greece, 1951)
Yorgos Markópoulos in his early poetry expresses the contrast between life in a modern …
Athiná Papadaki
(Greece, 1945)
The private, restricted world indoors versus the great outdoors, is a recurring theme …
Yannis Patilis
(Greece, 1947)
Yannis Patilis occasionally refers to Greece’s inner discord in the Civil War and under …
Titos Patríkios
(Greece, 1928)
Titos Patríkios held on to his ideals after the defeat of the Greek left in the 1940s …
Yiannis Ritsos
(Greece, 1909–1990)
Plagued by turberculosis, family misfortunes, and repeated persecution for his …
Miltos Sachtouris
(Greece, 1919)
The rejection of a decorative use of poetic language, and the greatest possible …
George Seferis
(Turkey, 1900)
George Seferis was born in Smyrna in 1900 and died in Athens in 1971. In 1931 he …
Násos Vayenás
(Greece, 1945)
Násos Vayenás writes poems about love, death, Woman, and poetry. He writes about the …
Haris Vlavianós
(Greece, 1957)
Haris Vlavianós strives to be innovative in his poetry, to explore new avenues; he …
 

 
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