Manolis Pratikakis Explained

Manolis Pratikakis
Birth Date:1943
Birth Place:Myrtos, Ierapetra, Greece
Nationality:Greek
Occupation:poet
Period:1974 - present

Manolis Pratikakis (; born 1943) is a Greek poet. He read Medicine at the University of Athens and he is a practicing neurologist and psychiatrist. His first collection of poems was published in 1974; he belongs to the so-called Genia tou 70, which is a literary term referring to Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and at the first years of the Metapolitefsi. For his collection of poems Το νερό, in 2003, he received the Greek National Book Award.[1]

Selected poetry

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.dedalus.gr/gr/author.asp?id=180 ΤΡΑΙΝΟ (Συγγραφείς - Μέλη)