Kostas Papageorgiou ( el, Κώστας Παπαγεωργίου; 1945 – 3 May 2021 in Athens) was an acclaimed Greek poet and

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. He read Law and Philology and worked as a lawyer from 1972 to 1978. Since then, he is involved only in literature-related employment. Papageorgiou died at the age of 76, on 3 May 2021. 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

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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

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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