Erich Vio

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Erich Giorgio Vio (* 1910 in Fiume , Austria-Hungary ; † May 14, 1999 ) was a poet and doctor.

Life

Vio completed a medical degree and went to Shanghai in 1937. After internment in a Japanese camp from 1943 to 1945, he worked for many years as a surgeon at St. Mary's Hospital in Hong Kong. He is the founder of the company Dr. Vio & Partner. From 1974 he continued to practice medicine in Taiwan and South Africa.

In addition to his extensive medical activities, Vio was a writer. He wrote numerous poems and writings, which in 1990 earned him a nomination for the Nobel Prize for Literature. After his death, the no longer existing Dr. Erich Vio Institut 2004 for the first time the Dr. Erich Vio reading award.

Works

  • Castalian spring (Ps. Ivo Reich)
  • African poems, Lempp-Verlag 1975
  • O life - you great game, Stoedtner, Berlin 1979
  • The wrong ways of freedom, Ellenberg Cologne 1978
  • The lowered torch, Ellenberg Cologne 1978
  • Airy Nothing, Downlander Eastbourne 1982
  • Four Selectedc Poets, Downlander Eastbourne 1984
  • The Great Divide, Downlander Eastbourne 1985
  • Clarion Call, Downlander Eastbourne 1983
  • Far Apart, Downlander Eastbourne 1984
  • Travel pictures in poems, Karlsruher Bote 1982
  • On-Together-Off-Sound, Boesche Berlin 1985
  • Mission and fulfillment, Boesche Berlin 1987
  • Sound and color play, poetry portfolio Graz 1983
  • Swan Song, Stockwell Devon 1988
  • De Senectute, Stockwell Devon 1989
  • To Lucretius Carus, Stockwell 1989
  • Sahara - a desert experience (with Leonie Chaffoy de Courcelles), Graphikum Mock 1989
  • Farewell, Aktuell Verlag 1993

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Poems by Erich Giorgio Vio at LiteratPro
personal data
SURNAME Vio, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vio, Erich Giorgio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Poet and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Fiume , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1999