Nikos Karouzos ( el, Νίκος Καρούζος) was a

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modernist Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...

poet. He was born in

Nafplion Nafplio ( ell, Ναύπλιο) is a coastal city located in the Peloponnese in Greece and it is the capital of the regional unit of Argolis and an important touristic destination. Founded in antiquity, the city became an important seaport in the ...

on 17 July 1926 and died in

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on 28 September 1990. He published his first poems in 1949. He also wrote literary criticism and essays on the

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

and

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. He was awarded the State Poetry Prize twice, in 1972 and 1988.

External links

Short biography and poems''Homo Graecus''
article in the newspape
''To Vima''
4 April 1999.

Poems of N.K. in the ''Center for Neo-Hellenic Studies''
1926 births 1990 deaths Modern Greek poets People from Nafplion 20th-century Greek poets {{Greece-poet-stub