Kostas Papageorgiou

Kostas Papageorgiou
Born	1945 Athens
Occupation	poet, critic,
Nationality	Greek
Period	1966–

Kostas Papageorgiou (Greek: Κώστας Παπαγεωργίου) (born 1945, in Athens) 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.

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)