Kostas Papageorgiou

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name = Kostas Papageorgiou


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birth_date = 1945
birth_place=Athens
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occupation =poet, critic,
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period =1966–
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Kostas Papageorgiou (Greek: Κώστας Παπαγεωργίου) (b. Athens 1945) is an acclaimed Greek poet and critic. He read Law and Philology and worked as a lawyer from 1972 to 1978. Since then, he is involved only in literature-related employment.

Through the years he has contributed to almost all the major Greek literary periodicals. He has published reviews in newspapers, such Eleftherotypia and he used to publish a periodical titled "Γράμματα και Τέχνες" (Letters and Arts). Since 1982, he has been working for the Greek National Radio as a consultant in literary matters, and producer for cultural broadcastings.

elected works

Poetry

*"Ποιήματα" (Poems), 1966
*"Συλλογή" (Collection), 1970
*"Το οικογενειακό δέντρο" (The family tree), 1978
*"Το σκοτωμένο αίμα" (Dead blood), 1982
*"Ποιήματα (1972-2000)" (Poems 1972-2000), 2004

Prose

*"Των Αγίων Πάντων" (All Saints), 1992
*"Άννα, τώρα κοιμήσου" (Sleep now, Anna), 1995
*"Αντί σιωπής" (Instead of silence), 2003

Essays

*"Η γενιά του '70 (Ιστορία, ποιητικές διαδρομές)" (The Generation of the 1970s. History, poetic pathways), 1989
*"Τα άδεια γήπεδα" (The empty pitches), 1994

External links

* [http://www.greece2001.gr/writers/KostasPapageorgiou.html His entry for the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair (Greek)]
* [http://www.dedalus.gr/gr/author.asp?id=163 His page at the website of the Hellenic Authors' Society (Greek)]