Kleitos Kyrou

Kleitos-Dimitrios Kyrou (Greek: Κλείτος-Δημήτριος Κύρου; 13 August 1921 – 10 April 2006) was a Greek poet and translator. He was born in Thessaloniki and studied at Anatolia College. In 1939 he entered the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He worked in banking (1951–83) and was General Secretary of the National Theatre of Northern Greece (1974–76).[1][2]

He made his first literary appearance in 1944, at the students' magazine Beginning, starting with translations of foreign, mainly English, poetry. His first published poem was Expectation (Προσμονή, published in the Thessaloniki magazine Student, issue no. 3, 5 May 1945). In 1949 he published his first book of poetry, titled Pursuit, Recollections from a doubtful era (Αναζήτηση, Αναμνήσεις μιας αμφίβολης εποχής). He collaborated with a plethora of magazines, like Beginning, Student, Free Letters, Diagonal, Our Century, Shell, New Course, Criticism and Parlour. His complete poetic works were published as In whole, 1943–1997 Harvest (Εν όλω, Συγκομιδή 1943–1997, Agra, 1997). In 1988 he was honoured with the Second State Award for Poetry, for his book The birds and the awakening (Τα πουλιά και η αφύπνιση), which he declined. In 1992 he was honoured by the Greek Society of Literature Translators for his translation of Christopher Marlowe's play Doctor Faustus and in 1994 he received the First State Award for Translation, for his translation of Percy Bysshe Shelley's tragedy The Cenci. In 2005 the Academy of Athens bestowed upon him the Kostas and Eleni Ourani Award, for the whole of his poetic oeuvre.

His poems have been translated in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Bulgarian and Arab.[2][3]

He married Philio Angelidou in 1969. His children were Eleni (born 1970) and Giorgos (born 1971).

He died on 10 April 2006 in his house, at 2 Athanasios Souliotis Street.

Bibliography

Poetry[4]

Prose

Translations[4]

Poetry

Theatre

References

  1. ↑ Kleitos Kyrou, translatum.gr, retrieved on 11 December 2015
  2. 1 2 "Educational Foundation of the National Bank of Greece" (PDF). miet.gr. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  3. ↑ Biography, blog dedicated to Kleitos Kyrou, retrieved 2 December 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Εθνικό Κέντρο Βιβλίου / Από το 18ο αιώνα μέχρι το 1935 | National Book Centre, From the 18th century to present day". ekebi.gr. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
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