MANOLIS
ANAGNOSTAKIS
Short
Biography
Manolis Anagnostakis was born in 1925 in Thessaloniki. He is
a poet and critic.
He studied medicine in his home town. However, politics and
literature had always his particular interest.
He began his career as authors with publications in the magazines
"Xekinima", (Departure 1944), and "Kritiki"
(1959-1961).
He finally became well known as a poet with the publication
of several anthologies: "Era I" 1945; " Era II"
1948; "Era III" 1951.
Between 1956 and 1962 a second poetic cycle followed: "Continuations
I" and "Continuation II" 1956, and "Continuations
III" 1962.
In 1968-1969 he published "The Edge", in 1972 "Parentheses",
and in 1975 an anthology, which contains a selection of the
poems mentioned above.
"Target" is one of his last works of poetry.
Manolis Anagnostakis is a poet with social commitment. His verses
are sad pictures, submitted to the reader with great inner dignity,
as they are bitter commentaries of small individual experiences,
where misfortune plays an inevitable role.
He is known also through political articles as a supporter of
a left ideology, so that he was sentenced to death during the
Civil War in Greek.
Poems by Anagnostakis | Comment
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