Menis Koumandareas

Menis Koumandareas (Greek Μένης Κουμανταρέας; born 1931 in Athens ) is a Greek writer.

Life

He is representative of social realism in Greek prose. After he had given up his studies, he worked for several years in shipping and insurance before 1982 as a freelance writer completely devoted himself to literature, in his native city of Athens, which he hardly ever left and in his books often to the stage of history will. In Greek literature scene, he first drew attention in 1962 with his short story collection Ta mihanakia.

Works

His previous work includes the following novels, short stories and short stories, of which only a tiny part has been translated into German:

In addition, numerous translations of foreign authors, including Alberto Moravia, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Herman Melville, Hermann Hesse, Carson McCullers, Lewis Carroll, Georg Buchner, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald.