Panos
Karagiorgos is Professor of English Language
and Literature at the Translation
Department, Ionian
University, Corfu. He studied English and Greek
Literature at the Aristotelian
University of Thessaloniki and English Literature
at Birmingham University,
the Shakespeare Institute, from which he received his
Ph. D. in 1976 with his dissertation Greek
Translations of Shakespeare: a Comparative Study.
Since coming to the Ionian University from the University
of loannina in 1980, where he lectured on English
and Modern Greek Literature, he has taught English-Greek
Translation, History of English Literature, and Modern
Greek Literature.
Professor Karagiorgos' publications: An
English-Greek Dictionary of Idiomatic Expressions,
Kyriakidis, Thessaloniki, 1992; Σύντομη Ιστορία της
Αγγλικής Λογοτεχνίας [Α Short History of English
Literature], Σύλλογος προς Διάδοσιν Ωφελίμων Βιβλίων,
Athens, 1992; Σαιξπηρικά Μελετήματα, Kyriakidis,
Thessaloniki, 1992; Shakespeare Studies, Kyriakidis,
Thessaloniki, 1995; Ανθολογία Επτανησίων Μεταφραστών
[An Anthology of Ionian Translators], Δήμος Κερκυραίων,
Corfu, 1998; Greek and
English Proverbs (bilingual), loannina, 1999; Landmarks
in English Literature, Apostrophos, Corfu, 2000;
Greek Maxims and Proverbs with
their counterparts in five languages: English, French,
German, Italian, Spanish, Apostrophos, Corfu, 2000;
Confusing Words in English, εκδόσεις Μεταίχμιο,
Athens, 2001; Lorenzos Mavilis, Selected Sonnets,
translated with an Ιntroduction and Νotes, The Corfu
Reading Society, Corfu, 2001.
His translation publications include: Wace & Thompson,
The Nomads of the Balkans (1989); Terence Spencer,
Fair Greece, Sad Relic (1990); Lawrence Durrell,
Prospero's Cell (1994); Lord Byron, The Curse
of Minerva (1995); and Beowulf, a verse translation
of the Anglo-Saxon epic, for which he received the prize
of the Hellenic Literary Translators' Association (1997);
John Forte, Rock of Ages (1999). He has also
published various translations from English and American
Literature.
Professor Karagiorgos is a member of the Greek Byron
Society, The Hellenic Literary Translators' Association,
The National Association of Greek Writers, and a Life-Member
of the International Lawrence Durrell Society.
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