Nanos valaoritis

Nanos Valaoritis ( Greek Νάνος Βαλαωρίτης , born July 5, 1921 in Lausanne ; † September 13, 2019 ) was a Greek poet and literary scholar .

Life

The great-grandson of the poet Aristotelis Valaoritis grew up as the son of the Greek diplomat Konstantinos Valaoritis, first in Switzerland , then in Greece and wrote since his early youth. His first publications appeared in 1939 in the Nea Grammata . While he was still studying law at the University of Athens , in 1944 he fled from the German-occupied Greece via the Aegean to Turkey , from there to the Middle East and finally to Egypt , where he met the famous Giorgos Seferis , who served as the embassy secretary for the Greek government in exile worked in Cairo . At his suggestion he traveled to London in the same year , where he endeavored to deepen the connection between Greek and English literature.

In London he also began to study English Philology at the University of London . He met TS Eliot , Dylan Thomas and WH Auden and worked for Louis MacNeice at the BBC . Alongside his studies, he translated modern Greek poets into English, including Odysseas Elytis and Andreas Embirikos . In 1947 his first collection of poems, the Timoría ton Mágon , appeared in London. From 1954 to 1960 he was a member of the Paris Surrealists .

In 1960 he returned to Greece. Between 1963 and 1967 he was editor and managing director of the literary magazine Pali . When the Greek military junta came to power in 1967 , he saw no choice but to go into exile himself. In 1968 he traveled to the USA , where he taught comparative literature and creative writing at the University of San Francisco until 1993 . In 1983 he was awarded the First State Prize for Poetry for his collection of poems Merikes gynekes (Μερικές γυναίκες) , after he had been a candidate for this award in 1958. The proposal to appoint him a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens in 1976 was unsuccessful.

Valaoritis' plays have been performed in Paris, Spoleto , Aarhus and Athens. He published in the literary magazines Tetrádio , Síma , Horizon , New Writing and Daylight . He lived in Athens with his wife, the American painter Marie Wilson .

Works

Poetry

• Η Τιμωρία των Μάγων, 1947.
• Κεντρική Στοά, 1958.
• Terre de Diamant , 1958.
• Hired Hieroglyphs , 1970.
• Dipomatic Relations , 1971.
• Ανώνυμο Ποίημα του Φωτεινού Αηγιάννη, 1977.
• Εστίες Μικροβίων, 1977.
• Ο Ήρωας του Τυχαίου 1979.
• Flash Bloom , 1980.
• Η Πουπουλένια Εξομολόγηση, 1982.
• Μερικές Γυναίκες, 1983.
• Ο Διαμαντένιος Γαληνευτής, 1981.
• Ποιήματα 1, 1983.
• Στο Κάτω Κάτω της Γραφής, 1984.
• Ο Έγχρωμος Στυλογράφος, 1986.
• Ποιήματα 2, 1987.
• Ανιδεογράμματα, 1996.
• Ήλιος, ο δήμιος μιας πράσινης σκέψης, 1996.
• Αλληγορική Κασσάνδρα, 1998.

Epic

• Ο Προδότης του Γραπτού Λόγου, short stories, 1980.
• Απ 'τα Κόκκαλα Βγαλμένη, Märchen, 1982.
• Ο Θησαυρός του Ξέρξη, fairy tale 1984.
• Η Δολοφονία, novella, 1984.
• Ο Ομιλών Πίθηκος ή Παραμυθολογία 1986.
• My Afterlife Guaranteed , Short Stories, 1990.
  • Η Ζωή μου Μετά Θάνατον Εγγυημένη, short stories, 1993.
• Παραμυθολογία, 1996.
• Ο Σκύλος του Θεού, 1998.
• Τα Σπασμένα Χέρια της Αφροδίτης της Μήλου, 2002.
• Γνωρίζετε την Ελπινίκη ;, short stories, 2005.

Essays

• Ανδρέας Εμπειρικός, 1989.
• Για μια Θεωρία της Γραφής, 1990.
• Μοντερνισμός, Πρωτοπορία και Πάλι, 1997.
• Αριστοτέλης Βαλαωρίτης, Ένας Ρομαντικός, 1998.

literature

• Evangelos Konstantinou , Kassandra calls forever , Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2001, p. 468 f.

Web links

• Short portrait with picture