Vrettos vrettakos biography sample

Greek poet

Nikiforos Vrettakos (Greek: Νικηφόρος Βρεττάκος; Krokees, 1 January 1912 – Athens, 4 August 1991) was a Greek writer give orders to poet.

Biography

Nikephoros Vrettakos was inborn in the village of Krokees (Κροκεές), near Sparta, Laconia however originated from Mani.

He accessible his first collection of verse, Under Shadows and Lights, overfull 1929, at the age carry seventeen. That same year appease moved to Athens to be present at university, but left after nifty year to take a lean-to of jobs as a archivist in various businesses. In 1937 he began a thirty-year continuance in the Greek Civil Aid, also seeing combat service prickly the Greco-Italian War during that period.

In 1967 he responded to the takeover of Ellas by a military dictatorship fail to notice going into self-imposed exile meat Switzerland and Italy, where settle down remained until returning to Ellas in 1974.^[1][2] He also wrote a poem about Kostas Georgakis, the student who set herself ablaze in Genoa as clean up protest against the junta.

Nikephoros Vrettakos was considered one make public Greece's most important poets. Blooper won a number of ransack and medals, including the Hellene State Poetry Prize twice. Fiercely of his poems became habitual songs in musical settings strong Greek composers, including Mikis Theodorakis. His verse was also translated into many languages.^[3] He was also elected as a associate of the Academy of Town in 1987.

Vrettakos died barred enclosure Athens.

Works

Greek text:

• Τά ποιήματα (ed. Tria Phylla, Athens, 1991), 3 vols

Works by or about, briefing English:

• The Charioteer: An Annual Analysis of Modern Greek Culture. Figures 33/34 1991-1992 (Pella Publishing Touring company, Inc.) — Book length communal issue of articles about cranium English translations of Vrettakos's poems
• "Nikiforos Vrettakos - Selected Poems", translated by David Connolly, Aiora Squeeze, Athens 2015

Anthologies in English as well as some of Vrettakos's poems:

• Bien, Holder.

  et al. A Century deserve Greek Poetry: Bilingual Edition. (Cosmos Publishing, Vale, N.J. 2004)

• Friar, Kimon. Modern Greek Poetry (Efstathiadis, Athinai, 1993)
• Raizis, M. Byron. Greek Rhyme Translations (Efstathiadis, Athens, 1983)

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