Michalis Pieris

Michalis Pieris was born in 1952 in Eftagonia, Cyprus. He studied literature and theatre in Thessaloniki and Sydney and has published several literary and critical studies. He has published three collections of poetry in the publishing series of the journal Planodion and a theatrical adaptation of Leontios Machairas’s medieval Chronicle of Cyprus, which he taught at the University of Cyprus. He has published (under the literary pseudonym Michalis Eftagonitis) poems and short stories in Cypriot magazines. His poetry has been translated into English, Italian, Catalan, Russian and Turkish and has received awards in countries abroad. He has lived for extended periods in Limassol, Thessaloniki, Sydney, Athens, Rethymno and Melbourne, and has travelled to many countries. Since 1993, he has lived permanently in Nicosia, teaching poetry and theatre at the University of Cyprus.