Kostas Papageorgiou


Kostas Papageorgiou was an acclaimed Greek poet and critic.
He read Law and Philology and worked as a lawyer from 1972 to 1978. Since then, he is involved only in literature-related employment.
Papageorgiou died at the age of 76, on 3 May 2021.
Through the years he has contributed to almost all the major Greek literary periodicals He has published reviews in newspapers, such Eleftherotypia and he used to publish a periodical titled Γράμματα και Τέχνες. Since 1982, he has been working for the Greek National Radio as a consultant in literary matters, and producer for cultural broadcastings.

Selected works

Poetry

  • Ποιήματα, 1966
  • Συλλογή, 1970
  • Το οικογενειακό δέντρο, 1978
  • Το σκοτωμένο αίμα, 1982
  • Ποιήματα , 2004

Prose

  • Των Αγίων Πάντων, 1992
  • Άννα, τώρα κοιμήσου, 1995
  • Αντί σιωπής, 2003

Essays

  • Η γενιά του '70 , 1989
  • Τα άδεια γήπεδα, 1994