| Titos Patrikios is a poet, prose writer, and translator. He took part in the Greek Resistance against the Axis occupation, first with the United Panhellenic Organization of Youth (EPON) and then with the Greek People’s Liberation Army (ELAS). In 1944, he was sentenced to death by collaborators of the Germans, although his execution was canceled at the last minute. He was exiled to the islands of Makronisos and Agios Efstratios. He was a founding member of the “Art Review”, a Greek cultural magazine. He worked at UNESCO in Paris and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) in Rome, and he was president of the 2000 Cultural Olympiad. He has been awarded the Greek Special State Prize for Literature and the Award of the Academy of Athens. He published nineteen poetry collections, five prose works, and nine translations, and has participated in nineteen collective works. His works have been translated into five languages. |
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