Yannis Yfantis
Encyclopedia
Yannis Yfantis is a Greek
poet
who is awarded with the Cavafy Award. He was born in 1949 in Raina in the Etoloakarnania
prefecture
near Agrinio
. He was presented to the Thessaloniki Public Broadcasting with Elliniki kai pagkosmia poiisi (Ελληνική και παγκόσμια ποίηση = Greek And International Poetry) and Kata vathos to thema ine ena (Κατά βάθος το θέμα είναι ένα). His poems were translated into several languages including English
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Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
poet
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
who is awarded with the Cavafy Award. He was born in 1949 in Raina in the Etoloakarnania
Aetolia-Acarnania
Aetolia-Acarnania is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of West Greece. It is located in the western part of Greece; the regional unit is a combination of the geographic regions Aetolia and Acarnania. Its capital is Missolonghi for historical reasons, with its biggest...
prefecture
Prefectures of Greece
During the first administrative division of independent Greece in 1833–1836 and then again from 1845 until their abolition with the Kallikratis reform in 2010, the prefectures were the country's main administrative unit...
near Agrinio
Agrinio
Agrinion is the largest city and municipality of the Aetolia-Acarnania peripheral unit of Greece, with 96,321 inhabitants. It is the economical center of Aetolia-Acarnania, although its capital is the town of Mesolonghi. The settlement dates back to ancient times...
. He was presented to the Thessaloniki Public Broadcasting with Elliniki kai pagkosmia poiisi (Ελληνική και παγκόσμια ποίηση = Greek And International Poetry) and Kata vathos to thema ine ena (Κατά βάθος το θέμα είναι ένα). His poems were translated into several languages including English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
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Poetry
- Mystiki tis Anatolis (Μυστικοί της Ανατολής = Secrets From The East) (1980)
- Ancient EddaEddaThe term Edda applies to the Old Norse Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, both of which were written down in Iceland during the 13th century in Icelandic, although they contain material from earlier traditional sources, reaching into the Viking Age...
(1983) - O Kathreftis tou Protea (Ο Καθρέφτης του Πρωτέα = The Mirror of Protea) (1986])
- Naos tou Kosmou (Ναός του Κόσμου = The Temple Of The World) (1996)
- O Kipos tis Poiisis (Ο Κήπος της Ποίησης = The Garden Of Poetry) (2000)
- Arhetypa (Αρχέτυπα = Archetype) (2000)
External links
- Homepage of Yannis Yfantis
- Poems by Yannis Yfantis from Translatum's anthology of Poets from Thessaloniki