Yiannis Efthymiadis

Yannis Efthymiadis was born in 1969 in Piraeus. He studied classical literature and undertook postgraduate studies in ancient Greek drama. He has published five collections of poetry (Stigma, privately published 2004, Kainos Diaretis, Nefeli 2007, Letters to the Prince, Mikri Arktos 2010, 27 or The Man Who Falls, Mikri Arktos 2012, On Your Body, Little Bear 2014) and a literary essay (12 Conversations with Odysseas Elytis’s Monogram, Kalligraphos 2014). He has translated English and American poets. His poems have been included in Greek and international anthologies and have been translated into English, French and German, whilst the cycle of poems The Crystal of the World (Metronomos 2016) has been set to music and recorded. He works as a teacher, has published literature textbooks for secondary education, and contributes to literary publications, both print and online, as well as magazines.