Poet Of The Week

Theodoros Rakopoulos was born in 1981 in Amyntaio. He studied in Thessaloniki and London. He has published three books of poetry, one of short stories and one as a member of a poetry triad. He has been awarded the State Prize for Emerging Writer for his first book ("Fagioum"), while he has...

Myrsini Gana was born in Athens. She studied English Literature at the University of Athens and Cultural Management in Brussels. She works as a translator. Her first poetry collection Ta Pera Meri (2017, Melani Editions) was awarded with the Audience Award of Public and the Debutant Poet Award by...

Katerina Thanopoulou was born in Athens. She is a special education mathematician with postgraduate studies in Special Education, Intercultural and Remote Education. She participated in the collective publication "To Theatro kai oi technikes tou os mochlos anaptyxis tou ekpaideftikou". She has published...

Η Δρ. Βασιλική Ράπτη γεννήθηκε στον Αλμυρό Μαγνησίας όπου και μεγάλωσε. Ως υπότροφος του ΙΚΥ σπούδασε Ελληνική Φιλολογία και Συγκριτική Φιλολογία και Ψηφιακά Μέσα, στην Ελλάδα, τη Γαλλία και τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες. Είναι Διδάκτωρ Συγκριτικής Φιλολογίας με έμφαση στο Θέατρο του Πανεπιστημίου Ουάσιγκτον...

Eleni Zacharopoulou Iliopoulou was born in Tropaia of Gortynia - Arcadia. She studied at the Pedagogical Academy of Tripoli. She writes poetry and essays. In 1994 she published the poetry collection: "Leaving the lull", awarded by the French Academy "Lutece". In 1995, she published the essay "I parasimoforia...

Dimitris Kosmopoulos was born in Kontogoni (Papaflessa), Pylia, in Messinia, on the Peloponnese peninsula. He grew up in Kalamata. He studied in Athens. He is a poet, essayist and translator. He has published nine books of poetry and three books of essays on literature and criticism. His essays, translations...

In 1963 she married Giorgos Papakostas and they had three sons. She has worked at the National Bank of Greece and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is a Social Welfare volunteer at the Hellenic Red Cross. Her poems have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, English and Turkish, and...

Maria Patakia was born in Athens. She studied at the Law School of the University of Athens and European Law at the Paris 2 University in Paris. She has worked in Brussels as a Legal Advisor to the European Commission and is president of the KYKLOS, a Cultural Association of Greek expats in Brussels. She...