| 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 Foundation and the award of ‘O Anagnostis’ magazine] , “Diakopes stin Pragmatikotita” (2009) [Award of ‘Diavazo’ magazine] and “Soneta tis Symforas” (2011) as well as four collections of essays, “O Allos Topos” (1994), “Poion Afora i Poiisi? Skepseis gia mia Techni Peritti” (2007), “To Diplo Oneiro tis Grafis” (2010, jointly with Christos Chrysopoulos) and “Giati Grafo Poiisi” (2015). In 2015 he published his first novel, “To Aima Nero”, while before “Aftoprosopografia tou Lefkou” he had published “To Kryfo Imerologio tou Hitler” (2016). He has translated the works of leading American and European poets such as Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, William Blake, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, Michael Longley, Anne Carson, Zbigniew Herbert, Fernando Pessoa, and Edward Estlin Cummings. In 2013, his translation of T.S. Elliot’s “Four Quartets” was published in a bilingual edition, an iconic composition in the history of literature. His poems have been translated into several European languages and his works have been published in England, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Ireland and Spain. He is the director of the magazine “Poiitiki”. He teaches History and Political Theory at the American College of Greece and is the editor of Patakis Publications. |
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