Yannis Kondos
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Yannis Kondos (Template:Langx; 1943 – January 2015)[1] was a Greek poet. He read Economics at the University of Piraeus (then Higher School for Industrial Studies). He founded the bookshop Ηνίοχος in 1971, along with Thanassis Niarchos. Since 1975, he has been working for Kedros publishers. He has also been professor of poetry for Kostas Kazakos' School of Dramatic Art.
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 was awarded the State Prize for Poetry for his collection, Absurd Athlete in 1998. His work has been translated into English, German and Danish.
Poetry
- Περιμετρική (Circular Route), 1970
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- Script error: No such module "Lang". (The Unforeseen), 1975
- Φωτοτυπίες (Photocopies), 1977
- Danger in the Streets, tr. J. Stathatos (1978) [English translations of selected poems]
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (In the Dialect of the Desert), 1980
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (The Bones), 1982
- The Bones: selected poems 1972–1982, tr. J. Stone (1985)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (By an Anonymous Monk), 1985
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (Gratuitous Darkness), 1989
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (At the Turn of Day), 1992
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (When a Drum is Heard over the City), selection, 1992
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (Absurd Athlete), 1997
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (Pins in the Clouds), 1999
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (The Moon's Hypotenuse), 2002
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (Seconds of Fear), 2006
Prose
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (The Noble Metals), 1994
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (Aristeides, the Little Hippopotamus), for children, 2001
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (Christmas is coming), 2004
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (The Noble Metals II), 2005
References
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External links
- His entry for the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair (Greek)
- His page at the website of the Hellenic Authors' Society (Greek) and (English)Template:Archive url
- A blog dedicated to his poetry
- His books at Kedros publishers
- Audio: Bronze Age by Yannis Kondos (English translation and reading by Peter Constantine)
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