Haris Vlavianos


Haris Vlavianos, is a contemporary Greek poet.

Biography

Haris Vlavianos studied Economics and Philosophy at the University of Bristol. He also studied Politics and History at Trinity College in Oxford. His doctoral thesis, entitled "Greece 1941-1949: From Resistance to Civil War", was published by Macmillan in 1992. He is professor of History at the American College of Greece.
He has published ten collections of poetry, the most recent of them being Sonnets of Despair, in 2011. He has also published a collection of thoughts and aphorisms on poetry and poetics entitled, The Other Place and a book of essays entitled, Does Poetry Matter?: Thoughts on the Uselessness of an Art, as well a book with haiku, entitled, The History of Western Philosophy in 100 Haikus: From the Presocratics to Derrida. He has translated into Greek, the works of well-known writers such as: Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, Michael Longley, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, Carlo Goldoni, William Blake, Zbigniew Herbert, Fernando Pessoa, E. E. Cummings, Wallace Stevens, Michael Longley, T. S. Eliot.
He is the editor of the literary Greek journal Ποιητική. His collection of poems Adieu, written in 1996, has been translated into English by David Connolly and published in the UK by Birmingham University Press. A volume of his Selected Poems has been translated into German by Dadi Sideri Speck, into Dutch by Hero Hokwerda and into Italian by Nicola Crocetti.
A selection of his poetry has been translated into Catalan by Joaquim Gestí and published in Barcelona by the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes. Other volumes of Selected Poems have been translated into German by Torsten Israel, into Dutch by Hero Hokwerda and into English by Mina Karavanta.
His poetry has also been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Albanian, and Swedish and has appeared in numerous European and American journals and anthologies.

Poetry