Yannis Varveris

His first collection of poems was published in 1975. 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. He has been awarded the State Book Prize for Criticism in 1996 for his book Κρίση του θεάτρου Γ΄ (1976–1984) and the Cavafy prize (2001) and the poetry prize of literary journal Diavazo (2002) for his poetry collection Στα ξένα.

• Name — Yannis Varveris • Born — 1955 • Birthplace — Athens, Greece • Died — 25 May 2011 1955 • Place of death — Athens, Greece • Occupation — poet, critic, translator • Period — 1975–2011

• Έν φαντασία και λόγω (In Imagination and Word), 1975 • Το ράμφος (The Beak), 1978 • Αναπήρων Πολέμου (Disabled Veterans), 1982 • Ο θάνατος το στρώνει (Death Spread It Around), 1986 • Πιάνο βυθού (Piano of the Deep), 1991 • Ο κύριος Φογκ (Mister Fog), 1993 • Άκυρο θαύμα (Miracle Null and Void), 1996 • Ποιήματα 1975-1996 (Poems 1975-1996), 2000 • Στα ξένα (Abroad), 2001 • Πεταμένα λεφτά (Wasted money), 2005 • Ο άνθρωπος μόνος (The man alone), 2009 • Βαθέος γήρατος (Of old age), 2011