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Sotiris Kakisis

b. 1954

Contemporary Greek poet

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Born 1954. Sotiris Kakisis is a Greek screenwriter, journalist, translator, poet, lyricist and songwriter.

Sotiris Kakisis (; born 1954, Athens) is a contemporary Greek poet. He is a prolific translator, most notably of Ancient Greek lyric poetry (Sappho, Alcaeus, Hipponax, Mimnermus etc.). Kakisis has also translated into modern Greek famous works by Lewis Carroll, Carlo Collodi, Lyman Frank Baum, James Thurber, Edward Gorey, Marcel Proust, and the "Complete Prose of" Woody Allen. He has had a long career in journalism, excelling as an interviewer, has written song lyrics, and has scripted several films, notably director Giorgos Panousopoulos' Love Me Not? and Athens Blues. His adaptations of Euripides' Medea and Herondas' Mimiamboi have been stage-produced by the State Theater of Norway and the Greek National Theater, respectively. The Greek National Theater presented the summer of 2020 at the Epidaurus ancient theater festival his translation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata and the summer of 2021 his translation of Aristophanes' The Knights.

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1954, Athens
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Who is Sotiris Kakisis?

contemporary Greek poet

When was Sotiris Kakisis born?

Sotiris Kakisis was born in 1954 in Athens.

What is Sotiris Kakisis's occupation?

Sotiris Kakisis is a screenwriter, journalist, translator, poet, lyricist and songwriter.

What nationality is Sotiris Kakisis?

Sotiris Kakisis is Greek.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Sotiris Kakisis

· Wikidata: Q3559075

· DBpedia: Sotiris Kakisis

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