Manolis Pratikakis (; born 1943) is a

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

. He read

Medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pract ...

at the

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...

and he is a practicing

neurologist Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal c ...

and

psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their sy ...

. His first collection of poems was published in 1974; he belongs to the so-called Genia tou 70, which is a literary term referring to

authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the

Greek military junta of 1967-1974 The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels, . Also known within Greece as just the Junta ( el, η Χούντα, i Choúnta, links=no, ), the Dictatorship ( el, η Δικτατορία, i Diktatoría, links=no, ) or the Seven Years ( el, η Ε ...

and at the first years of the

Metapolitefsi The Metapolitefsi ( el, Μεταπολίτευση, , " regime change") was a period in modern Greek history from the fall of the Ioaniddes military junta of 1973–74 to the transition period shortly after the 1974 legislative elections. The m ...

. For his collection of poems ''Το νερό'', in 2003, he received the Greek National Book Award.ΤΡΑΙΝΟ (Συγγραφείς - Μέλη)

Selected poetry

*''Ποίηση 1971-1974'' (Poetry 1971-1974), 1974 *''Οι παραχαράκτες'' (The Counterfeiters), 1976 *''Λιβιδώ'' (Libido), 1978 *''Η παραλοϊσμένη'' (The Demented), 1980 *''Γενεαλογία'' (Genealogy), 1984 *''Το νερό'' (The Water), 2002 *''Ποιήματα 1984-2000'' (Poems 1984-2000), 2003

Notes

External links

His page at the website of the Hellenic Authors' Society (Greek)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pratikakis, Manolis 1943 births Living people National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni Cretan poets People from Ierapetra