Culture

Pavlina Pampoudi, founding member of the Hellenic Authors’ Society (of which she was Secretary General for 5 years) and the Poets' Circle (with a two-year term on the Board of Directors), was born in Athens. She studied History and Archaeology in Athens and painting in London. She has published 1...

Petros Stefaneas studied Mathematics, Logic and Computer Science at the Universities of Athens and Oxford, as well as the National Technical University of Athens. His research interests include Logic and formal methods in Computer Science, as well as the philosophy of Computer Science. He is an...

Thomas Tsalapatis was born in Athens in 1984. He studied at the Department of Theater Studies at the Athens School of Philosophy. In 2011 he published his first poetry collection, "To Ximeroma Einai Sfagi Kyrie Krak” (publ. Ekati) which was awarded the Greek State Prize for Emerging Writer (2012). I...

Manolis Pratikakis is one of the most notable contemporary poets. He has published many poetry collections, art critiques, short stories and articles. Poems of his have been translated into several languages. In 1999 he was nominated for the European Aristeion Prize for Literature. His poems...

Charis Vlavianos was born in Rome in 1957. He studied philosophy at the University of Bristol and political theory at the University of Oxford. He has published twelve collections of poetry, the most recent being: “Aftoprosopografia tou Lefkou” (2018) [Athens Academy Award of the Petros Charis Fou...

Thanasis Chatzopoulos is a poet and translator, child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He has written sixteen books of poetry from 1986 to 2016: Idiois somasi, To Afoto, Apo katavolis drosou, O ex aimatos nekros (French and Italian translations) Ston ilio moira, Rimata gia to rodo (Spanish translation,...

Ilias Fragkakis was born in Athens. He studied sociology, political science, music and directing in Greece and abroad. He has mainly directed theater productions (at the Greek National Theater, some Municipal and Regional Theaters and independent theaters), but also documentaries, short films...

Spyros Katsimis was born in Corfu in 1933. He studied law at the University of Athens and worked as a journalist for Athenian newspapers, magazines, and the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, ERT. He has published fifteen books of poetry, two short story collections, and a compilation of interviews....

Anastasis Vistonitis was born in Komotini in 1952. Since 1970 he has published twelve books of poetry, six prose books, five volumes of essays and a book of translations of Chinese poet Li He. He has published numerous articles, essays, travel texts and critical reviews. Since 1991, he has been...

Nasos Vagenas is one of the most important representatives of poetry of the Generation of the 1970s, an essayist, critic, translator and academic. He was born in Drama, Greece in 1945. He studied literature at the School of Philosophy of the University of Athens (1963-1968), at the Universities...

Ο Παναγιώτης Αρβανίτης γεννήθηκε το 1985 στον Πύργο Ηλείας. Σπούδασε ελληνική φιλολογία και πολιτικές επιστήμες στο Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών. Είναι υποψήφιος διδάκτωρ στο τμήμα Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών του Ελεύθερου Πανεπιστημίου του Βερολίνου. Ποιήματα και δοκίμιά του έχουν δημοσιευτεί σε ...

Giannis Antiochou is a poet and translator. He was born in Athens in 1969. He grew up and now lives in Piraeus. He holds an MBA and MSc from the School of Medicine of the University of Athens, specializing in Intensive Care Units. He works as a specialist consultant in the field of Hospital accreditation...

Anteia Phrantze was born in Athens in 1945. She studied History and Archaeology at the University of Athens. She completed her postgraduate studies at the Sorbonne University and holds a Ph.D. in Modern Greek Literature (1982). She taught Modern Greek Literature at the Department of Literature...

Anna Griva was born in Athens in 1985. She studied Greek Literature in Athens and History of Literature in Rome. She has published four poetry collections, while her new book "Demonioi" is expected by the end of the year from Melani publications. Her poems and prose have been translated into English,...

Nikos Alexiou was born in Volos, Greece in 1959. He studied Economics in Athens and worked in various professions. In the mid-1980s, he moved to New York to study Sociology. Since 1990 he has been teaching at Queens College, State University of New York (CUNY). He has received the President's...

Stamatis Polenakis was born in Athens in 1970. He studied film directing in Athens and attended courses in Spanish literature and culture at the Complutense University in Madrid. He has published six poetry collections. His poems have been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Italian,...

Ilias Gris comes from the town of Krestena in Greece. He studied Economics and, since 1975, he has practiced journalism in various media, mainly at the ERT television channels. He debuted in 1977 with his first collection and has since published seven collections of poetry, three books of prose,...

Ο Σταύρος Σταμπόγλης γεννήθηκε το 1946 στην Αθήνα. Φοίτησε στο ΙΓ΄ Γυμνάσιο Αθηνών. Είναι πτυχιούχος της τεχνικής σχολής Δοξιάδη1966 και Αρχιτέκτων DESA 1977, (Ειδική Αρχιτεκτονική Σχολή Παρισιού). Είναι μέλος του συλλόγου αρχιτεκτόνων ΣΑΔΑΣ, και ομότιμο μέλος του ΤΕΕ. Δημοσίευσε ποίηση για πρώτη φορά το 2007 με τ...