Haris Vlavianos

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Haris Vlavianos (gr. Χάρης Βλαβιανός, born 1957 in Rome) is a contemporary Greek poet.[1]

He studied Economics and Philosophy at the University of Bristol (B.Sc) and Politics and History (M.Phil, D.Phil) at the University of Oxford (Trinity College, Oxford). His doctoral thesis entitled, "Greece 1941-1949: From Resistance to Civil War", was published by Macmillan (1992).

He has published eight collections of poetry, including "The Angel of History" (1999), which was short-listed for the State Poetry Prize. He has also published a collection of thoughts and aphorisms on poetry and poetics entitled, "The Other Place" (1994). He has translated into Greek, the works of well-known writers such as: Walt Whitman ("Selected Poems", 1986), Ezra Pound ("Hugh Selwyn Mauberley", 1987; "Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXX", 1991), Michael Longley ("Selected Poems", 1992), Wallace Stevens ("Adagia", 1993), John Ashbery ("Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror", 1995), Carlo Goldoni ("The Venetian Twins", 1996 — a play staged by the Karolos Koun Art Theatre in 1996-97), William Blake ("The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1997—short listed for the State Translation Prize), Zbigniew Herbert ("The Soul of Mr. Cogito and other Poems", 2001), Fernando Pessoa ("Herostrato: The Quest for Immortality", 2002, "Marginalia", 2005, e. e. cummings ("33 x 3 x 33: Poems, Essays, Fragments", 2004—short listed for the State Translation Prize) and Wallace Stevens, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackird and Other Poems", 2007.

He is the editor of the influential literary Greek journal "Ποίηση" (Poetry). His collection of poems "Adieu" (1996) has been translated into English by David Connolly and published in the UK by Birmingham University Press (1998). A Selected Poems volume of his translated into German by Dadi Sideri Speck, into Dutch by Hero Hokwerda and into Italian by Nicola Crocetti, has been published by "Romiosini Press" (2001), "Rotterdam Poetry International"(2000) and "Crocetti" (forthcoming), respectively. A selection of his poetry has been translated into Catalan by Joaquim Jesti and just published in Barcelona by the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes. A new "Selected Poems" volume of his, translated into German by Torsten Israel, has just been published by “Hanser” in Munich with an introduction by the well-known German poet, Joachim Sartorius and into Dutch by Hero Hokwerda by "Ovolos" in Amsterdam. His poetry has also been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Albanian and Swadesh and has appeared in numerous European and American journals and anthologies.

His collection of poems, entitled, "After the End of Beauty", was published in March 2003 and was short-listed for the State Poetry Prize and the "Diavazo" Prize. At the end of the year his translations of the poetry Michael Longley will be published in a bilingual volume. His essay on Dante ("The Divine Comedy as Poetic Autobiography") has appeared as an introduction to the Greek translation of Boccaccio’s biography of Dante. A book of essays entitled "Does Poetry Matter? Thoughts on the Uselessness of Poetry", has just been published [2007].

He is Professor of History and History of Ideas at the American College of Greece[2].

[edit] Poetry

  • Ὑπνοβασίες ("Somnambulations") 1983. Greek
  • Πωλητής θαυμάτων ("Peddler of Miracles") 1985. Greek
  • Τρόπος τοῦ λέγειν ("In a Manner of Speaking") 1986. Greek
  • Η Νοσταλγία των Ουρανών ("The Neuralgia of the Sties"") 1991. Greek
  • Adieu. Nefeli, 1996. ISBN 960-211-245-Χ Greek
  • Adieu. Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies; University of Birmingham, 1998. ISBN 0-704418-86-X Greek and English.
  • Ο Άγγελος της Ιστορίας ("The Angel of History") Nefeli, Athens 1999. ISBN 9602114363 Greek
  • Μετά το Τέλος της Ομορφιάς ("After the End of Beauty") Nefeli, Athens, 2003. ISBN 960-211-672-2 Greek
  • Affirmation: Selected Poems 1986-2006. Dedalus, Dublin 2007. ISBN 1904556655 [7] English

[edit] References

  1. ^ Biography http://www.greece2001.gr/writers/XarisVlavianos.html (Greek)
  2. ^ Deree College - Academics - Faculty
  3. ^ Review in Süddeutsche Zeitung: Herbstwind, 4. January 2002 [1]
  4. ^ Book's page at Hanser Verlag [2]
  5. ^ Review in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Platons Erbe, 21. Januar 2008 [3]
  6. ^ Review in Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Jedes Gedicht ein Licht, 22. January 2008 [4]
  7. ^ Author's page at Dedalus Press. [5]

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