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Giorgos Markopoulos was born in Messini in 1951 and has been living in Athens since 1965. He studied economics. He has published seven collections of poetry, one of prose, two volumes of his essays on the work of other poets, two monographs (on football in Greek poetry and on the work of Tasos Livaditis),...

Lefteris Xanthopoulos was born in Athens in February 1945. He studied at the Law School of the University of Athens without sitting through the final exams, and cinema at The London Film School in England. He has published fifteen books (poetry, prose, essays, testimony) and directed over forty...

Nikos Katsalidas was born in Ano Lesinitsa, in the area Theologos of Sarandë in south Albania. He is the son of folklorist Grigoris Katsalidas. Today, he lives in Athens. He studied literature in Tirana. A poet, prose writer, translator and essayist with several honors and awards. He is a member ...

Giorgos Chouliaras is a poet, essayist, prose writer and translator. In 2014 he was awarded by the Academy of Athens for his "alphabetical novel" Lexiko Anamniseon and for his entire body of work. His poetry in translation has been published in leading American journals and anthologies - the Harvard...

Giannis Efstathiadis was born in Athens in 1946. He has published ten collections of poems and verse, as well as poems for children. He has also published seven books of short prose and short stories as well as five books of essays, musical texts, articles and chronicles. Under the pseudonym Apikios,...

Giorgos Rouskas was born into this world in Attica, in May 1962. Following exams, he was admitted to the Varvakeio High School and then to the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University. Since his graduation, he has been working as a freelancer. He has held two solo painting...

Giorgos Blanas (1959 - ) is a Greek poet. He studied Library Organisation and Management and has worked as a librarian, publicity officer, translator and editor. He first appeared in literature in 1982, in the pages of the historical magazine Grammata kai Technes. In 1987 he published his first book...

Lena Samara studied at the Chemistry School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and at the Veaki and Traga Drama Schools in Athens. Four collections of her poetry have been published by Gavriilidis Publications: "Anapodo Mnimoniko" (2009), "Enilika Somata" (2011), Oria (2014) and "Epimeno na...

Lena Kallergi was born in Athens and grew up in Nea Artaki, on the island of Euboea. She has written the poetry books "Perissevei ena Ploio" (Gavriilidis, 2016), which was awarded by the "Poets' Circle" and was shortlisted for the Greek State Poetry Awards, and "Kipoi stin Ammo" (Gavriilidis, 2010),...

Giannis Doukas was born in Athens in 1981. He studied Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Digital Humanities at King's College in London. For the past four years he has been living in Galway, Ireland and working on his Ph.D. thesis on intertextuality in Late Antiquity...

Konstantina Korryvanti was born in Athens in 1989. She studied Political Science, History, and International Relations at Panteion University and continued her studies at the University of Essex in England. She attended the two-year poetry workshop of the Takis Sinopoulos Foundation and published...

Krystalli Glyniadaki was born in Athens in 1979. She studied philosophy, philosophy of religion, political theory, and creative writing for many years in England, then went to live in Istanbul and worked in Oslo. She translates literature from Norwegian and English and is a journalist for Norwegian...

Όταν ήταν 4 χρόνων άκουσε τη Μαρία Κάλλας στο ραδιόφωνο και αναφώνησε: «Εγώ έτσι θα γίνω». Ήταν η στιγμή που την καθόρισε στη ζωή της. Η Σόνια Θεοδωρίδου τραγούδησε σε ηλικία 18 χρονών δίπλα στον Άστορ Πιατσόλα, έχει συνεργαστεί με τις μεγαλύτερες ορχήστρες του κόσμου και έχει τραγουδήσει στα σημαντι...

Kostas Kremmydas was born in Kolonos, in August 1955. He studied Political Science and Public Administration at Panteion University, Pedagogy at the teacher training institute SELETE, Law in Athens and Social History at the Sorbonne, where he presented his Master's thesis: Trade union movement...

Nikos Souvatzis was born in Berlin in 1977. He is a graduate of the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology of the University of Athens. He has worked as an editor in print and online media. He writes prose and poetry. His poems have been translated into Spanish, French, and English. He...

Panos Kyparissis was born in Oxya, Ioannina. He studied Mathematics and Literature at the University of Athens and Theater at the Drama School of the Theatro Technis (Greek Art Theater) "Karolos Koun".  He is an actor and director in theater, television, and film. He worked as a teacher of Literature ...

Katerina Iliopoulou has been publishing poems and texts on poetry since 2001. She has published four books of poetry with Melani Publications, most recently "Mia Fora Kathe Topio kai Olotela" (2015), as well as a collection of short stories "Den Einai Akoma", Melani 2019, a book of poetry and...

Ioannis Panoutsopoulos was born in the city defended by Aeschylus, and took his first steps in Isminis Street, near Antigonis Street, in Kolonos. He started writing at quite an early age because he wouldn’t have it any other way and started publishing in 2010, since he couldn't put it off any l...