Yannis Varveris

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name = Yannis Varveris


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birthdate = 1955
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occupation =poet, critic, translator
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period =1975–
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Yannis Varveris ( _el. Γιάννης Βαρβέρης) (b. Athens 1955) is an award winning Greek poet, critic and translator [ [http://www.patakis.gr/SearchTableLookupVirtual.aspx?TableId=5&val=439078 Εκδοσεισ Πατακη ] ] . He read Law at the University of Athens. His first collection of poems was published in 1975. He belongs to the so-called Genia tou 70, which is a literary term referring to Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and at the first years of the Metapolitefsi. He has been awarded the State Book Prize for Criticism in 1996 for his book "Κρίση του θεάτρου Γ΄ (1976–1984)" and the Cavafy prize (2001) and the poetry prize of literary journal Diavazo (2002) for his poetry collection "Στα ξένα". [ [http://www.dedalus.gr/gr/author.asp?id=283 ΤΡΑΙΝΟ (Συγγραφείς - Μέλη) ] ]

Works

Poetry

*"Έν φαντασία και λόγω" (In Imagination and Word), 1975
*"Το ράμφος" (The Beak), 1978
*"Αναπήρων Πολέμου" (Disabled Veterans), 1982
*"Ο θάνατος το στρώνει" (Death Spread It Around), 1986
*"Πιάνο βυθού" (Piano of the Deep), 1991
*"Ο κύριος Φογκ" (Mister Fog), 1993
*"Άκυρο θαύμα" (Miracle Null and Void), 1996
*"Ποιήματα 1975-1996" (Poems 1975-1996), 2000
*"Στα ξένα" (Abroad), 2001

elected Essays & Criticism

*"Κρίση του θεάτρου (1976–1984)" (Theater Reviews 1, 1976-1984), 1985
*"Κρίση του θεάτρου Β΄ (1976–1984)" (Theater Reviews 2, 1976-1984), 1991
*"Κρίση του θεάτρου Γ΄ (1976–1984)" (Theater Reviews 3, 1976-1984), 1995
*"Σωσίβια λέμβος" (Lifeboat), 1999
*"Κρίση του θεάτρου Δ΄ - κείμενα θεατρικής κριτικής 1994-2003" (Theater Reviews 4, 1994-2003), 2004

External links

* [http://www.greece2001.gr/writers/GiannisVarveris.html His entry for the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair (Greek)]
* [http://www.dedalus.gr/gr/author.asp?id=283 His page at the website of the Hellenic Authors' Society (Greek)] and [http://www.dedalus.gr/en/author.asp?id=283 (English)]
* [http://book.culture.gr/76/19_gr.html A page at the National Book Centre of Greece]

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