Yannis Kondos ( el, Γιάννης Κοντός; 1943 – January 2015) 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

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Poetry

*''Περιμετρική'' (Circular Route), 1970 *' (The Chronometer), 1972 *' (The Unforeseen), 1975 *''Φωτοτυπίες'' (Photocopies), 1977 *''Danger in the Streets'', tr. J. Stathatos (1978) nglish translations of selected poems*' (In the Dialect of the Desert), 1980 *' (The Bones), 1982 *''The Bones: selected poems 1972–1982'', tr. J. Stone (1985) *' (By an Anonymous Monk), 1985 *' (Gratuitous Darkness), 1989 *' (At the Turn of Day), 1992 *' (When a Drum is Heard over the City), selection, 1992 *' (Absurd Athlete), 1997 *' (Pins in the Clouds), 1999 *' (The Moon's Hypotenuse), 2002 *' (Seconds of Fear), 2006

Prose

*' (The Noble Metals), 1994 *' (Aristeides, the Little Hippopotamus), for children, 2001 *' (Christmas is coming), 2004 *' (The Noble Metals II), 2005

References

External links

His entry for the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair (Greek)His page at the website of the Hellenic Authors' Society (Greek)
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(English)A blog dedicated to his poetryHis books at Kedros publishers
*Audio
''Bronze Age'' by Yannis Kondos
(English translation and reading by Peter Constantine) {{DEFAULTSORT:Kondos, Yannis 1943 births 2015 deaths People from Aigio Poets from Achaea 20th-century Greek poets 21st-century Greek poets Greek male poets 20th-century Greek male writers 21st-century Greek male writers