Christoforos Liontakis
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Christoforos Liontakis | |
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| Born | 1945 Heraklion, Greece |
| Died | (aged 74) Athens, Greece |
| Occupation | Poet, translator |
| Nationality | Greek |
| Period | 1973–2019 |
Christoforos Liontakis (Greek: Χριστόφορος Λιοντάκης; 1945 – 26 July 2019) was an award-winning Greek poet and translator. He read law at the University of Athens and philosophy of law at the Sorbonne, in Paris. His first collection of poems was published in 1973.
He belonged to the so-called Genia tou 70, 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 during the first years of the Metapolitefsi.
For his collection of poems With the Light, published in 1999, he received the Greek National Book Award for the Year 2000 and the poetry prize of the prestigious literary journal Diavazo. The French Ministry of Culture honored him with its Knighthood of Arts and Letters, and the municipality of Heraklion awarded him the Nikos Kazantzakis Literary Prize.
Liontakis died on 26 July 2019.[1]
Poetry
[edit]- Το τέλος του τοπίου (The end of the landscape), 1973
- Μετάθεση (Transference), 1976
- Υπόγειο γκαράζ (Underground Garage), 1978
- Ο Μινώταυρος μετακομίζει (The Minotaur Moves), 1982
- O ροδώνας με τους χωροφύλακες (Rose Garden with the Gendarmes), 1988
- Με το φως (With the Light), 1999 [2]
Prose
[edit]- Νυχτερινό γυμναστήριο (Nocturnal Gymnasium), 1993
Selected translations
[edit]- Stendhal, Αρμάνς (Armance), 1978[3]
- Bonnefoy, Yves, Οι τάφοι της Ραβέννας (Les Tombeaux de Ravenne), 1981
- Genet, Jean, Ο σκοινοβάτης, 1986
- Rimbaud, Arthur, Μια εποχή στην Κόλαση (Une Saison en Enfer), 2004
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Πέθανε ο ποιητής Χριστόφορος Λιοντάκης". www.naftemporiki.gr (in Greek). 26 July 2019. Archived from the original on 27 July 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
- ^ http://tovima.dolnet.gr/print_article.php?e=B&f=12792&m=S13&aa=1[permanent dead link] A review by Yorgos Xenarios (Greek)
- ^ Dates of the first publication of the Greek translation
External links
[edit]- His entry for the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair (Greek)
- His page at the website of the Hellenic Authors' Society (Greek)
- His page at Kastaniotis Publishers (English) Archived 2003-01-08 at the Wayback Machine
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- 1945 births
- 2019 deaths
- Writers from Heraklion
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni
- University of Paris alumni
- Cretan poets
- Greek male poets
- 20th-century Greek poets
- 20th-century Greek male writers
- 21st-century Greek poets
- 21st-century Greek male writers
- Greek translators
- 20th-century translators