Kostas Papageorgiou

Kostas Papageorgiou (; 1945 – 3 May 2021 in Athens) was an acclaimed Greek poet and critic.

He read Law and Philology and worked as a lawyer from 1972 to 1978. Since then, he is involved only in literature-related employment.

Papageorgiou died at the age of 76, on 3 May 2021.

Through the years he has contributed to almost all the major Greek literary periodicals He has published reviews in newspapers, such Eleftherotypia and he used to publish a periodical titled Γράμματα και Τέχνες (Letters and Arts). Since 1982, he has been working for the Greek National Radio as a consultant in literary matters, and producer for cultural broadcastings.

Selected works

Poetry Ποιήματα (Poems), 1966 Συλλογή (Collection), 1970 Το οικογενειακό δέντρο (The family tree), 1978 Το σκοτωμένο αίμα (Dead blood), 1982 Ποιήματα (1972–2000) (Poems 1972–2000), 2004

Prose Των Αγίων Πάντων (All Saints), 1992 Άννα, τώρα κοιμήσου (Sleep now, Anna), 1995 Αντί σιωπής (Instead of silence), 2003

Essays Η γενιά του '70 (Ιστορία, ποιητικές διαδρομές) (The Generation of the 1970s. History, poetic pathways), 1989 Τα άδεια γήπεδα (The empty pitches), 1994