Charalampos Giannakopoulos was born in Athens in 1971. He studied at the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and works as a philologist in secondary education. For two years, he contributed to the organization and operation of School Libraries in Greece.
He writes poetry and essays, translates poetry and prose systematically from English, French, and Ancient Greek, and regularly publishes articles and essays on literature and the act of reading.
He has published the prose works Little Ikarias (Elektra Editions, 2005) and the essay collection The Twenty-Four Hours of a Reader (Polis Editions, 2017).
His poems have been included in the collective volume Free Flight, Free Fall (Oxys Editions, 2011), as well as in his personal poetry collections Letters to a Very Young Poet (Polis Editions, 2012), A Detail No One Notices (Free Thinking Zone Editions, 2013), What the Poet Truly Looks At (Polis Editions, 2016), and Death Washes Its Face in the Waters Flowing from Your Body (Polis Editions, 2023).
He is currently translating Odyssey by Homer.
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