Nasos Vagenas

Nasos Vagenas, also transliterated Vayenas (Greek: Νάσος Βαγενάς), was born in 1945 in Drama, Greece.

Vagenas studied philology at the University of Athens. He has taught at the universities of Athens (1963-1968), Rome (1970-1972), Essex (1972-1973) and Cambridge (1974-1978), where he wrote his doctorate thesis on the poetry of George Seferis.

Works

Poetry

• Πεδίον Αρεως (1974)
• Βιογραφία (1978)
• Τα γόντα της Ρωξάνης (1981)
• Βάρβαρες Ωδές (1992
• Η πτώση του ιπτάμενου β' (1997)
• Σκοτεινές μπαλλάντες και άλλα ποιήματα (2001)

Essays

• Η συντεχία (1976)
• Ο ποιητής και ο χορευτής (1979)
• Ο λαβύρινθος της σιωπής (1982)
• Η Εσθήτα της Θεάς (1988)
• Η ειρωνική γλώσσα (1994)
• Σημειώσεις από το τέλος του αιώνα (1999)

Translations of his poetry

In English

• Βiography, translated by Richard Burns. Cambridge: Lobby Press, 1978.
• Biography and Other Poems, translated by John Stathatos. London: Oxus Press, 1979.

In German

• Wanderung eines Nicht-Reisenden, translated by Alexandra Rassidakis. Cologne: Romiosini, 1997.

In Italian

• Vagabondaggi di un non viaggiatore, translated by Caterina Carpinato. Milan: Crocetti, 1997.

In Dutch

• Biografie en andere gedichten, translated by Marko Fondse and Hero Hokwerda. Amsterdam: Het Griekse Eiland, 1990.
• Barbaarse Oden, translated by Marko Fondse and Hero Hokwerda. Groningen: Styx Publications, 1997.

In Romanian

• Rătăcirile unui necălător, translated by Victor Ivanovici. Bucharest: Seara, 1998.
• Ode Barbare, translated by Valeriu Mardare. Bucharest: Omonia, 2001.

In Serbian

• Варварске оде. Песме и есеји, translated by Ivan Gadjanski and Ksenija Maricki Gadjanski. Belgrade: Rad, 2001.

External links

• biography in Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies

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