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Episode 10: Modern Greece


Dr. Haris Vlavianos

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Dr. Haris Vlavianos was born in Rome in 1957. He studied Economics and Philosophy at the University of Bristol and Politics, History and International Relations at the University of Oxford (Trinity College). His doctoral thesis entitled, Greece 1941-1949: From Resistance to Civil War, was published by Macmillan (1992).

He has published thirteen collections of poetry. His latest collection, Self-Portrait of Whiteness (2018) was awarded the National Poetry Prize, the Academy of Athens Poetry Prize, and the Reader’s Poetry Prize.

He has translated in book form the works of renowned poets such as: Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, John Ashbery, Anne Carson Zbigniew Herbert, Fernando Pessoa, Michael Longley, William Blake and an Anthology of Love Poems.

He is the editor of the influential literary journal “Poetics” and Poetry Editor at “Patakis Publications”.

He is Professor of History and Politics at the American College of Greece.

For his contribution in promoting Italian literature and culture in Greece, the President of the Italian Republic bestowed upon him in February 2005 the title of “Cavaliere”, while the Dante Society of Italy awarded him the “Dante Prize” for his publications on the Divine Comedy.


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