Greek Poet
1. Nikos Kavvadias (1910)
Greek Poet
Greek poet and author whose best-known works include Marabou, Fog, and other poetry collections. His prose works include Of War/On My Horse and The Shift.
2. Odysseas Elytis (1911)
Greek Poet
Greek poet and 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature recipient who was associated with the Romantic Modernism movement. His poetic works include Orientations, The Sovereign Sun, and Diary of an Invisible...
3. Olga Broumas (1949)
Greek Poet
Greek poet who is best known for a homoerotic collection entitled Beginning with O. Her other works include Pastoral Jazz, Soie Sauvage, and Perpetua.
4. Costas Montis (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Costas Montis was an influential and prolific Cypriot poet novelist and playwright.
5. Kiki Dimoula (1931)
Greek Poet
Kiki Dimoula is a Greek poet.
6. Nikos Karouzos (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Nikos Karouzos was a Greek modernist poet. He was born in Nafplion on 17 July 1926 and died in Athens on 28 September 1990. He published his first poems in...
7. George Pavlopoulos (1924)
Greek Poet
George Pavlopoulos was a Greek poet relatively unknown outside Greece but admired within his own country by fellow poets such as George Seferis. George or Giorgos or Giorgis or Georgios...
8. Nasos Vagenas (1945)
Greek Poet
Nasos Vagenas also transliterated Vayenas is a Greek poet and translator. Vagenas studied philology at the University of Athens. He has taught at the universities of Athens Rome Essex and...
9. Giannis Skarimpas (1893)
Greek Poet
Giannis Skarimpas Giannis Skarimbas or Yiannis Skarimbas was a Greek writer dramatist and poet.
10. Andreas Zarbalas (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Andreas Zarbalas is a Greek poet and journalist. Zarbalas was born in the village of Llazat near Sarandë in southern Albania. He initially worked as a Greek language teacher in...
11. Christos Armandos Gezos (1988)
Greek Poet
Christos Armandos Gezos is a Greek author and poet. He was awarded as the The Best Debuting Author by the State Awards of Greece in 2014. Gezos was born in...
12. Napoleon Lapathiotis (1888)
Greek Poet
Napoleon Lapathiotis was a Greek poet. A native of Athens he began writing and publishing poetry when he was eleven. In 1907 along with others he established the Igiso magazine...
13. Christos Laskaris (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Christos Laskaris was a Greek poet. Laskaris was born in the village of Chavari in Elis but moved to Patras as a child. He studied at the Pedagogical Academy of...
14. Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke is a Greek poet.
15. Vassilis Steriadis (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Vassilis Steriadis was a Greek poet and critic. He read Law at the University of Athens and Italian at the Universita per Stranieri in Perugia Italy. He worked as...
16. Alexandros Soutsos (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Alexandros Soutsos was a Greek poet from a prominent Phanariote family. He founded the Greek Romantic school of poetry. Soutsos was born in Istanbul in 1803 from Chian parentage....
17. Giorgos Markopoulos (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Giorgos Markopoulos is a Greek poet.
18. Takis Tsiakos (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Takis Tsiakos was a Greek poet representative of the poetic style of Kostis Palamas. Tsiakos was born in Gjirokastër modern southern Albania. In 1930 he moved to Ioannina Greece where...
19. Nanos Valaoritis (1921)
Greek Poet
Nanos Valaoritis is one of the most distinguished writers in Greece today. He has been widely published as a poet novelist and playwright since 1939 and his correspondence with George...
20. Nikiforos Vrettakos (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Nikiforos Vrettakos was a Greek writer and poet.
21. Tassos Denegris (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Tassos Denegris born in Athens in 1934 was one of Greece's best known living poets. He published six collections of poetry and translated into Greek work by among others Borges...
22. Nicolas Calas (1907)
Greek Poet
Nicolas Calas was the pseudonym of Nikos Kalamaris a Greek-American poet and art critic. While living in Greece he also used the pseudonyms Nikitas Randos and M. Spieros.
23. Andreas Embirikos (1901)
Greek Poet
Andreas Embirikos was a Greek surrealist poet and the first Greek psychoanalyst.
24. Maria Laina (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Maria Laina is an award winning Greek poet.
25. Stavros Vavoúris (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Stavros Vavoúris is a Greek poet.
26. Spyros Vrettos (1960)
Greek Poet
Spyros Vrettos is a Greek poet. He later studied at law school in the University of Athens.
27. Markos Sklivaniotis (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Markos Sklivaniotis is a Greek writer and a poet. He was born in Patras Greece 1954. He studied chemical engineering in Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki and following that he was...
28. Sokratis Skartsis (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Sokratis Skartsis is a Greek poet and writer as well as a professor in the University of Patras. He is also a founding member of the University of Patras Poetry...
29. Stephanos Sahlikis (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Stephanos Sahlikis or Sachlikis was a Cretan from Handax lawyer and poet who wrote satyrical poems in vernacular Greek. His poems are written in political verse and are the...
30. Manolis Xexakis (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Manolis Xexakis is a Greek poet and prose writer. He studied physics and mathematics at the University of Thessaloniki. He has worked as a journalist teacher and also in...
31. Sotiris Trivizas (1960)
Greek Poet
Sotiris Trivizas is a Greek poet essayist and translator. He read Philology and journalism in Thessaloniki. He is a member of the Porfiras literary magazine editorial board.
32. Yannis Yfantis (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Yannis Yfantis is a Greek poet who is awarded with the Cavafy Award. He was born in 1949 in Raina near Agrinio in Aetolia-Acarnania. He was presented to the Thessaloniki...
33. Stefanos Tassopoulos (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Stefanos Tassopoulos is a Greek novelist playwright and poet. He read Law at the University of Athens; he also studied Theatre and journalism and worked as a journalist.
34. Minás Dimákis (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Minas Dimakis was a Greek poet.
35. Maria Polydouri (1902)
Greek Poet
Maria Polydouri was a Greek poet. Polydouri was born in Kalamata. She was a contemporary of Kostas Karyotakis with whom she had a desperate but incomplete love affair.
36. Yiannis Ritsos (1909)
Greek Poet
Yiannis Ritsos was a Greek poet and left-wing activist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II.
37. Argyris Chionis (1943)
Greek Poet
Argyris Chionis was a Greek poet. In 1967 shortly after the military junta came to power he emigrated to Paris.
38. Miltos Sachtouris (1919)
Greek Poet
Miltos Sachtouris or Miltos Sahtouris was a Greek poet. He was a descendant of Giorgos Sachtouris. When he was young he adopted the pen name Miltos Chrysanthis. Sachtouris wrote his...
39. Ioannis Polemis (1860)
Greek Poet
Ioannis Polemis Greek: Ιωάννης Πολέμης was a Greek poet.
40. Yannis Varveris (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Yannis Varveris was an award winning Greek poet critic and translator. Varveris was born and died in Athens. He read Law at the University of Athens. His first collection...
41. Theodore Stephanides (1896)
Greek Poet
Theodore Stephanides was a Greek poet author doctor and naturalist.
42. Kostas Karyotakis (1896)
Greek Poet
Kostas Karyotakis is considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s and one of the first poets to use iconoclastic themes in Greece. His poetry conveys a...
43. Kostas Varnalis (1884)
Greek Poet
Kostas Varnalis was a Greek poet.
44. Kostis Palamas (1859)
Greek Poet
Kostis Palamas was a Greek poet who wrote the words to the Olympic Hymn. He was a central figure of the Greek literary generation of the 1880s and one of...
45. Athanasios Christopoulos (1772)
Greek Poet
Athanasios Christopoulos Greek poet was born at Kastoria in Macedonia. He studied at Buda and Padua and became tutor to the children of Alexander Mourousis Prince of Wallachia.
46. Aristotelis Valaoritis (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Aristotelis Valaoritis was a Greek poet representative of the Heptanese School and politician. He was also the great-grandfather of Nanos Valaoritis one of the most distinguished writers of Greece.
47. Panagiotis Soutsos (Unknow)
Greek Poet
Panagiotis Soutsos was a Greek newspaper editor journalist author and poet of the romantic school born in Constantinople. He was an admirer of the ancient Greek tradition while he used...
