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Poet of the Week: Iro Nikopoulou | 08.12.2023
Poet Of The Week
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Poet of the Week: Iro Nikopoulou | 08.12.2023

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 4/12- 10/12.2023  is Iro Nikopoulou.

Iro Nikopoulou was born in Athens in 1958. She has studied art and stage design at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her works have been translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian and other European langua­ges. She has published thirteen books of poetry and prose and has participated in many international poetry festivals: at the 7th International Izmir Festival in Turkey (2008), the 1st Balkan Festival in Thessaloniki (2013), the 1st International Festival of Athens (2013) and 52nd Goranova Festival in Croatia (2015), Athens (2018 & 2019), etc. An anthology of her poems entitled Aceptiones de la Miranda, translated by Jose Antonio Moreno Jurado (2019, El Arbol de la Luz, Sevilla) is published in Spanish. In 2019 the literary magazine “Sisyfos” vol. 17 made a tribute to her literary work. She is a member of the Hellenic Chamber of Fine Arts (EETE), the Hellenic Authors’ Society and the Poets’ Circle.

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Music supervision by Maria Reboutsika
Sound Editing by Giorgos Giannakoulas and Eleftheria Papoutsaki

Broadcast: Monday to Friday at 07:00 and 19:00 and on the weekend at 19.00 (Athens time)