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 20.01- 04. 02.2024 on Voice of Greece is Euripidis Garantoudis.
Euripides Garantoudis (Kavala, 1964) is currently a Professor of modern Greek literaturein the Department of Philology of the University of Athens and he has been working as amember of the Greek Open University for the last 11 years. He worked for three years(November 1986 – October 1989) as a lecturer at the ‘Istituto di Studi Bizantini e Neogreci’ of the University of Padua teaching greek language and literature. He haswritten or edited 24 books in his field, and has published over 250 papers in journals andcollective volumes. He has participated in 51 local and international conferences and in12 research projects in Greece as a scientific officer or researcher. He has been elected atthe place of the special secretary of the Greek Comparative Literature Association for the past 9 years. He translated in greek the ‘Ed è subito sera’ by Salvatore Quasimodo andselected poems by Cesare Pavese.
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Music supervision by Maria Reboutsika
Sound Editing by Eleftheria Papoutsaki & Ermioni Katsigianni
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