Voice of Greece dedicates the week 10-16 June 2024 to Anteia Frantzi, who passed away at the age of 79.
From Monday, June 10, 2024 until Sunday, June 16, 2024, the poems that she had read in the studio of Voice of Greece in July 2019 will be broadcast again.
Anteia Frantzi was born in 1945 in Athens. A graduate of the American College of Greece, she studied at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Athens and was a Doctor of Modern Greek Philology with postgraduate studies at the University of Paris IV at the Sorbonne. She taught Modern Greek literature at the Department of Philology of the University of Thessaloniki since 1985 and retired in 2012. She collaborated with the Theatre Department of the same University and was a visiting professor at the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of the University of Cyprus. She worked in research at New York University and Columbia University in New York.
She was a regular contributor and member of the editorial board of “Anti” magazine from 1975 until its publication ceased in 2008. She edited special issues and literary tributes and, from 1982 to 1985, she was in charge for the series “Neoellinikes psifides” of Polytypo publications. From 1995 to 2008, she participated in the organizing committee and coordinated the publication of Aimos. Anthologia Valkanikis Poiisis, Athens, Oi filoi tou periodikou “Anti”, 2006. She was a member of the “Hellenic Authors’ Society”, the non-profit company “Manolis Anagnostakis” and the “Contemporary Social History Archives”.
She first published poetry in 1975. She published the following poetry collections: I peripeteia mias perigrafis, Thessaloniki, Egnatia-Tram, 1978. Metapoiisi ylikon, Thessaloniki, Barbounakis, 1982. I achinalepou, Athens, Gnosi, 1985 (children’s book). Metagrafi imerologiou, Athens, Hestia Publishers, 1984. Schedon ainigma, Athens, Iakinthos, 1987. Stefani, Athens, Kedros, 1993. Teleti sto kyma, Athens, Nefeli, 2002. Fevgalea. Poiimata 1975-2010, Athens, Ypsilon/Vivlia, 2010. Stichari, Athens, Gavriilidis, 2014.
She has also published literary studies/essays: Outos i allos: Anagnostakis, Engonopoulos, Kachtitsis, Chatzis, Athens, Polytypo, 1988. Erotikes metamorfoseis: Antidoro stin Matsi Chatzilazarou, Athens, Polytypo, 1989. Mismagia: Anthologio Fanariotikis poiisis, Athens, Hestia Publishers 1993, reprint, 2008, Edward Everett: Selides imerologiou apo tin Ellada tou 1819, Athens, Trochalia 1996. M. Karagatsis: Periplanisi ston kosmo. Taxidiotikes entyposeis, (Selection, introduction, editing), Athens, Hestia Publishers, 2002. Emene poiima: Mia peridiavasi sto poiitiko “dasos” tis Elenis Vakalo, Athens, Nefeli, 2005. Erotikes metamorfoseis: Simeioseis gia tin poiisi tis Matsis Chatzilazarou [revised edition], Athens, Gavriilidis, 2015. “Eleftheri Zoi ki anarchi os kyma” Romos Philyras (1888-1942), Athens, Takis Sinopoulos-Gavriilidis Foundation, 2017.
Voice of Greece radio is once again including in its program the two-minute poetry tributes titled “Poet of the week”, with the aim of disseminating, supporting, and promoting the Greek language and culture.
Each weekly episode is a tribute to a contemporary poet from Greece or the Greek Diaspora.
The poets recite their poems themselves, against original music, composed and played in the studio of the Hellenic Radio by the musicians of the ERT Orchestra, as well as musical pieces by well-loved composers.
Seven poems every week, one Greek poem every day travels through the frequencies of “Voice of Greece” to the ends of the earth, where there are Greek voices.
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Music supervision by Maria Reboutsika
Sound Editing by Eleftheria Papoutsaki
Broadcast times: Monday to Friday at 07:00 and 19:00 and on the weekend at 19.00 (Athens time)
