The New Athenian writers

• Christos Christovasilis
  Christos Christovasilis
  Christos Christovasilis was a Greek journalist and author, representative of Greek pastoral literature. He was a collector of rural and folk material and one of the most important figures in the literature of Epirus in late 19th-early 20th century.-Life:...
  
  
• Kostas Kariotakis
• Napoleon Lapathiotis
  Napoleon Lapathiotis
  Napoleon Lapathiotis was a Greek poet. A native of Athens, he began writing and publishing poetry when he was eleven. In 1907, along with others, he established the Igiso magazine, in which he published his works...
  
  
• Kostis Palamas
  Kostis Palamas
  Kostis Palamas was a Greek poet who wrote the words to the Olympic Hymn. He was a central figure of the Greek literary generation of the 1880s and one of the cofounders of the so-called New Athenian School along with Georgios Drosinis, Nikos Kampas, Ioanis Polemis.-Biography:Born in Patras, he...
  
  
• Alexandros Papadiamantis
  Alexandros Papadiamantis
  Alexandros Papadiamantis was an influential Greek novelist and short-story writer.-His life:Papadiamantis was born in Greece, on the island of Skiathos, in the western part of the Aegean Sea. The island would figure prominently in his work. His father was a priest...
  
  
• Angelos Sikelianos
  Angelos Sikelianos
  Angelos Sikelianos was a Greek lyric poet and playwright. He wrote on national history, religious symbolism, and universal harmony in poems such as The Light-Shadowed, Prologue to Life, Mother of God, and Delphic Utterance...
  
  
• Gregorios Xenopoulos
  Gregorios Xenopoulos
  Gregorios Xenopoulos was a novelist, journalist and writer of plays from Zakynthos. He was lead editor in the now-legendary magazine "The Education of Children" during the period from 1896 to 1948, during which time he was also the magazine's main author...
  
  

Greek writers from 1944–1974

• Aris Alexandrou
  Aris Alexandrou
  Aris Alexandrou was a Greek novelist, poet and translator. Always on the Left and always unconventional , he is the author of a single novel which is widely considered to be among the classic modern Greek works in the second half of the 20th...
  
  
• Manolis Anagnostakis
  Manolis Anagnostakis
  Manolis Anagnostakis was a Greek poet and critic at the forefront of the Marxist and existentialist poetry movements arising during and after the Greek Civil War in the late 1940s. Anagnostakis was a leader amongst his contemporaries and influenced the generation of poets immediately after him...
  
  
• Odysseas Elytis
  Odysseas Elytis
  Odysseas Elytis was regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. In 1979 he was bestowed with the Nobel Prize in Literature.-Biography:...
  
  
• Nikos Karouzos
  Nikos Karouzos
  Giannakis 'Ioannis' Okkas is a Cypriot football striker. He currently plays for Anorthosis Famagusta FC. He is also the captain of the Cyprus national football team.- International career :...
  
  
• Katina Papa
  Katina Papa
  Katina Papa was a Greek author. She became well known for her poetry and novels.She was born in the village of Janicat in the Ottoman Empire, now modern southern Albania...
  
  
• Giorgos Seferis
  Giorgos Seferis
  Giorgos or George Seferis was the pen name of Geōrgios Seferiádēs . He was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate...
  
  
• Yiannis Ritsos
  Yiannis Ritsos
  Yiannis Ritsos was a Greek poet and left-wing activist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II.-Early life:...
  
  
• Miltos Sachtouris
  Miltos Sachtouris
  Miltos Sachtouris or Miltos Sahtouris was a Greek poet. He was a descendant of Giorgos Sachtouris. When he was young he adopted the pen name Miltos Chrysanthis...
  
  
• Takis Sinopoulos
  Takis Sinopoulos
  Takis Sinopoulos was a Greek poet and a leading figure among the so-called first postwar generation of Greek poets...
  
  

Modern Greek writers

• George Leonardos
  George Leonardos
  - Early life :Son of Anastase and Maria, Leonardos was born in Alexandria, Egypt on 20 February 1937. His father died when he was two years old and he lived with his mother in Alexandria until 1954. He was an avid reader of fiction and history, and as a high school student in Alexandria had his...
  
  
• Maro Douka
  Maro Douka
  Maro Douka is an acclaimed Greek novelist. She has lived in Athens since 1966 and she studied History and Archaeology at the University of Athens...
  
  
• Kostis Gimossoulis
  Kostis Gimossoulis
  Kostis Gimossoulis is a Greek poet and novelist. He read Law at the University of Athens. He is also a draughtsman and watercolorist, and Μαύρος Χρυσός , a book he published in 2001, contains poems, stories and watercolors he produced.-Poetry:*Ο ξυλοκόπος πυρετός ,1983*Η Αγία Μελάνη , 1983*Το στόμα...
  
  
• Panos Karnezis
  Panos Karnezis
  Panagiotis Karnezis is a Greek writer. Born in Greece in 1967, he moved to England in 1992 to study Engineering. He was later awarded a M.A. in Creative Writing by the University of East Anglia. His first collection of stories, Little Infamies, was published in 2002...
  
  
• Dimitri Kitsikis
  Dimitri Kitsikis
  Dimitri Kitsikis is a Greek Turkologist, Professor of International Relations and Geopolitics. He has also published poetry in French and Greek.-Life:D...
  
  
• Yannis Kondos
  Yannis Kondos
  Yannis Kondos is an award winning Greek poet. He read Economics at the University of Piraeus . He founded the bookshop Ηνίοχος in 1971, along with Thanassis Niarchos. Since 1975, he has been working for Kedros publishers...
  
  
• Dimosthenis Kourtovik
  Dimosthenis Kourtovik
  Dimosthenis Kourtovik is a Greek writer, literary critic and anthropologist. He studied biology in Athens and Germany and specialized later on physical anthropology...
  
  
• Dimitris P. Kraniotis
  Dimitris P. Kraniotis
  Dimitris P. Kraniotis is a contemporary Greek poet. Born in 15 July 1966 in Stomio - Larissa, a coastal town in central Greece.- Biography :...
  
  
• Dimitris Lyacos
  Dimitris Lyacos
  Dimitris Lyacos is a contemporary Greek poet and playwright. He was born and raised in Athens where he studied Law. From 1988-1991 he lived in Venice, then moved to London, studied philosophy at University College London and stayed there for thirteen years...
  
  
• Christoforos Liontakis
  Christoforos Liontakis
  Christoforos Liontakis is an award winning Greek poet and translator. He read Law at the University of Athens and Philosophy of Law at Sorbonne, Paris...
  
  
• Petros Markaris
  Petros Markaris
  Petros Márkaris is a Greek writer of detective novels starring the grumpy Athenian police investigator Costas Haritos.- Biography :...
  
  
• Jenny Mastoraki
  Jenny Mastoraki
  Jenny Mastoraki is a Greek poet and translator. She read Philology at the University of Athens.She belongs to the Genia tou 70, which is a term used to describe Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and...
  
  
• Lefteris Poulios
  Lefteris Poulios
  Lefteris Poulios is a Greek poet.He belongs to the so-called Genia tou 70, which is a literary term referring to Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and at the first years of the...
  
  
• Alexis Stamatis
  Alexis Stamatis
  Alexis Stamatis is a well known Greek novelist, and poet born in Athens, Greece. He studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and took postgraduate degrees in Architecture and Cinematography in London. He has published nine novels...
  
  
• Vassilis Steriadis
  Vassilis Steriadis
  Vassilis Steriadis was a Greek poet and critic. He read Law at the University of Athens and Italian at the Universita per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy...
  
  
• Soti Triantafyllou
• Haris Vlavianos
  Haris Vlavianos
  Haris Vlavianos , is a contemporary Greek poet.-Biography:He studied Economics and Philosophy at the University of Bristol and Politics and History at the University of Oxford...
  
  
• Nina Rapi
  Nina Rapi
  Nina Rapi is a Greek-born, London-based, award-winning playwright and short story writer.Rapi is also the Editor-in-chief of BRAND literary magazine, which she founded in 2006.- Style and themes :Rapi's writing focuses on the state of being an outsider...
  
  
• Vicky Theodoropoulou
  Vicky Theodoropoulou
  Vicky Theodoropoulou is a Greek Writer. She read Modern History in Athens and in Paris at the Sorbonne University and she spent many years wrestling with the written word as a journalist for...
  
  

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• Nikos Dimou
  Nikos Dimou
  Nikos Dimou, born in 1935 in Athens, is a Greek writer. He has worked in advertising and as a columnist for magazines and newspapers.- Biography :...
  
  
• Apostolos Doxiadis
  Apostolos Doxiadis
  Apostolos Doxiadis is a Greek writer.Since his early years Doxiadis was drawn to mathematics and at the age of 15 he entered Columbia University in New York City to study maths...
  
  
• Konstantinos Kavafis
• Dean Kalymniou