Giorgos Chantzis

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Giorgos Chantzis was born in 1972 in Athens. He studied Education and Philosophy (Universtiy of Athens) and English Literary Translation (The European Center for the Translation of Literature and the Human Sciences). He writes poetry criticism for the daily paper Eleftherotypia and the poetry journal Poiitiki [Poetics]. Since 2006 he has directed the seminar series Contemporary Poetry Readings at the philosophy café Dasein in Athens. His poetry is published in Karaoke Poetry Bar, (ed. Futura, Athens 2007), Noveltly Within or Beyond Language, Contemporary, Anthology of young Greek Poets, (ed. Gavriilidis Athens 2009), Bella Boom, (forthcoming, 2009).


News

New Word Express participant Hywel Griffiths sent us English translations of three of his poems. You can read them here alongside the originals.
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If you've been wondering what Word Express writers have been working on recently, you'll be pleased to hear that Owen Martell's novel 'Dyn Yr Eiliad' has been translated into Serbian by Milan Dobričić's Read the full story here.

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Using photography and music from our multi-talented Word Express writer-travellers, we've put together this short slide show with music from Ivan Hristov's band Gologan.

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