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 Maria
Grammatikou (Poet,
Translator) |
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Born
in Lakka, on the island of Paxi, (one of
the Ionian Islands located south of Corfu), Mrs. Grammatikou
obtained a Bachelor's degree in Archaeology from
the University of Athens and has been a member of the
National Society of Greek Writers since 1979.
Mrs. Grammatikou has published several collections of
poems, reviews and articles and has translated various
literary works. She speaks Italian, French, English and
Soanish.
Her first collection of poems 25 Toccates and 6 Fugues
was published in 1979 and was honored with the Maria
P. Ralii Award in 1980 (new writer category). Her
next collection of poems titled Ïracle (Philipotis
Editions) included poems that were awarded the First
Prize in the 1961 Literary Competition of the House
of Fine Arts and Literature.
Ionian Sea 90 degrees East (Chrysothemis Editions)
was published in 1985. This collection of poems received
in 1993 the Dionysus Award in Smyrna. Turkey. Her
most recent work is titled The Pomegranate and the
Sound (Delphini Editions, 1996).
Mrs. Grammatikou spent ten years in Milan, Italy where
she published several poems in the Italian press. She
has translated into Greek articles and short stories from
Italian, poetry from French, Italian and Spanish, Ernest
Hemingway's Four
Stories from the Spanish Civil War (Delphini Editions,
1996), Carlo Collodi's Pinnochio's
Adventures (Patakis Editions, 1991) and Stefano
Zecchi's, Sensuality
(Patakis Editions, 1997).
Poems
translated into English
Weakness
Cobalt Blue
Under the Eternal Sky
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