Kostas Papageorgiou

Not to be confused with the footballer born in 1941, Kostas Papageorgiou.

Not to be confused with the footballer born in 1995, Konstantinos Papageorgiou.

Kostas Papageorgiou
Born	1945 Athens
Died	3 May 2021(2021-05-03) (aged 75–76)
Occupation	poet, critic,
Nationality	Greek
Period	1966-2021

Kostas Papageorgiou (Greek: Κώστας Παπαγεωργίου; 1945 – 3 May 2021 in Athens) was 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.

Papageorgiou died at the age of 76, on 3 May 2021.

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.

Selected 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

• His entry for the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair (Greek)
• His page at the website of the Hellenic Authors' Society (Greek)