Nanos Valaoritis

Nanos Valaoritis, Greek Νάνος Βαλαωρίτης ( born July 5, 1921 in Lausanne) is a Greek poet and literary scholar.

Life

The great-grandson of the poet Aristotelis Valaoritis grew up as the son of Greek diplomats Konstantinos Valaoritis first in Switzerland, then in Greece and has been writing since his early youth. His first publications appeared in 1939 in the Nea Grammata. While he was still studying law at the University of Athens, he fled 1944 from the German-occupied Greece over the Aegean Sea in Turkey, and from there to the Middle East and finally to Egypt, where he met the famous Giorgos Seferis, who for as Secretary the Greek government in exile in Cairo worked. On his suggestion, he traveled to London in the same year, where he made ​​an effort to deepen the connection between Greek and English literature.

In London, he also began to study English Philology at the University of London. He met T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and WH Auden and Louis MacNeice worked for the BBC. During his studies he translated modern Greek poets into English, including Odysseas Elytis and Andreas Embirikos. In 1947 he published his first collection of poems, the Timoria ton Magon, in London. From 1954 to 1960 he was a member of the Paris Surrealists.

In 1960 he returned to Greece. Between 1963 and 1967 he was editor and managing director of the literary magazine Pali. In 1967 the Greek military junta came to power, he saw no other choice but to go into exile himself. So he traveled in 1968 in the U.S., where he Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco taught until 1993. In 1983 he was awarded for his book of poems Μερικές γυναίκες with the First State Prize for poetry, after he had in 1958 a candidate for this award. The proposal to appoint him in 1976 corresponding member of the Academy of Athens, was unsuccessful.

Valaoritis ' plays were performed in Paris, Spoleto, Aarhus and Athens. He has published in literary magazines Tetrádio, Sima, Horizon, New Writing and Daylight. He lives with his wife, the American painter Marie Wilson, in Athens.

Works

Poetry

  • Η Τιμωρία των Μάγων, 1947.
  • Κεντρική Στοά, 1958.
  • Terre de Diamant, 1958.
  • Hired Hieroglyphs, 1970.
  • Dipomatic Relations, 1971.
  • Ανώνυμο Ποίημα του Φωτεινού Αηγιάννη, 1977.
  • Εστίες Μικροβίων, 1977.
  • Ο Ήρωας του Τυχαίου 1979.
  • Flash Bloom, 1980.
  • Η Πουπουλένια Εξομολόγηση, 1982.
  • Μερικές Γυναίκες, 1983.
  • Ο Διαμαντένιος Γαληνευτής, 1981.
  • Ποιήματα 1, 1983.
  • Στο Κάτω Κάτω της Γραφής, 1984.
  • Ο Έγχρωμος Στυλογράφος, 1986.
  • Ποιήματα 2, 1987.
  • Ανιδεογράμματα, 1996.
  • Ήλιος, ο δήμιος μιας πράσινης σκέψης, 1996.
  • Αλληγορική Κασσάνδρα, 1998.

Epik

  • Ο Προδότης του Γραπτού Λόγου, short stories, 1980.
  • Απ ' τα Κόκκαλα Βγαλμένη, fairy tales, 1982.
  • Ο Θησαυρός του Ξέρξη, fairy tales 1984.
  • Η Δολοφονία, novella, 1984.
  • Ο Ομιλών Πίθηκος ή Παραμυθολογία 1986.
  • My Afterlife Guaranteed, short stories, 1990. Η Ζωή μου Μετά Θάνατον Εγγυημένη, short stories, 1993.

Essays

  • Ανδρέας Εμπειρικός, 1989.
  • Για μια Θεωρία της Γραφής, 1990.
  • Μοντερνισμός, Πρωτοπορία και Πάλι, 1997.
  • Αριστοτέλης Βαλαωρίτης, Ένας Ρομαντικός, 1998.
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