YIORGOS CHRISTODOULIDES (1968)
YIORGOS CHRISTODOULIDES (1968)

Summary/Abstract: Born in Moscow in 1968, raised in Larnaka, Cyprus. Holder of an MA in Journalism (Lomonosov University, Moscow). He works as a journalist in Nicosia. His debut work, Ένια (Enia: Ateleia, Nicosia, 1996) was awarded the State Prize for young writers. His second, Ονειροτριβείον (DreamMill: Gavrielides, Athens, 2001) received the State Prize for poetry. It was followed by: Εγχειρίδιο Καλλιεργητή (Grower’s Manual: Govosti, Athens, 2004); Το Απραγματοποίητο (The Undone: Gavrielides, Athens, 2010) and Δρόμος μεταξύ Ουρανού και Γης (Road between Heaven and Earth: Farfoulas, Athens, 2013). In June 2010, a short selection of Christodoulides’ poems were published in Berlin, Germany. In December 2011, more than 150 poems spanning the past fifteen years of Christodoulides’ work were translated into Bulgarian by Vasilka Petrova Hadjipapa (Plamik: Sofia, 2011) and put together in a single volume titled after his collection Ονειροτριβείον [Dream-Mill]. His latest book of poetry, Πληγείσες Περιοχές-Γυμνές Ιστορίες (Affected Areas-Raw Tales: Melani, Athens, 2016) has been translated into French by Michel Volkovitch as Zones sinistrées (published by ‘Le miel des anges’). His work has been translated into English, Spanish, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Turkish etc. and appeared in Cypriot, Greek and international literary reviews. His poetry will be a part of the new Treći Trg’s project named Greek Literature from Cyprus in Serbian.

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