VoG’s Poet of the Week: Christos Armando Gezos | 13-19.11.2023

Each weekly episode is a tribute to a contemporary poet from Greece or the Greek Diaspora.
The poets recite their poems themselves, along with an original live music background.

The Poet of the Week 13-19.11.2023 is Christos Armando Gezos.

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Christos Armando Gezos was born in Himara, Albania in 1988 and grew up in Skala, Laconia. He is a graduate of the School of Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. For his first book, the poetry collection Unfulfilled Fears (Polytropon, 2012), he received the 2013 Greek State Prize for Emerging Writer. This was followed by the novel Mud (Melani Publications, 2014, nominated for the Athens Prize for Literature), the collection of short stories Seesaw, (Melani Publications, 2016), the novel Needle Lost (Metaichmio Publications, 2021, nominated for the State Prize for Fiction) and the poetry collection I Have Always Bought Transparent Umbrellas (Thraca Publications, 2022). Mud has been released in Albania and France. Seesaw was translated into seven languages (English, Turkish, Serbian, Russian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Albanian) by the National Greek Committee of South-East European Studies. He has represented Greece at the European Youth Event 2018, in Strasbourg, and at the Kyiv International Book Fair in 2016. He lives between Athens, Laconia, and Himara.

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Sound Editing by Eleftheria Papoutsaki
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