Eugene Aranitsis

Eugenios Aranitsis was born in Corfu in 1955. He has lived in Athens since 1974. Since 1978, he has worked for the newspaper "Eleftherotypia". In 1976, he founded the publishing house “Akmon”, which he managed throughout its existence. He wrote numerous essays and articles on Greek and foreign literature, which were later collected in three volumes. In 1986, in collaboration with Odysseas Elytis, they published the work "The Room with the Pictures". He was awarded the State Prize for Literature in 2000 for his essay “To Whom Does Corfu Belong” (1999). His other works include: “Africa”, 1988, “Poems and Acts”, 1990, “Details of the End of the World”, 1993 (in French, published by Flammarion, 2007), “Stories That Some People I Know Liked”, 1995, "The Sea", 1998, "Orphan Drugs", 1999, "Ips the Printer: Elytis for Children and Lovers", 2000, "Summer on the Hard Drive", 2002, "Late Antiquity", 2003.