George Veltsos was born in Athens in 1944. He studied law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and received his doctoral degree in political sociology from the University of Paris VIII. Since 1975 he has taught at the Panteion University in Athens, where he is professor of communications theory. He has written numerous scholarly works, three plays all staged in Athens, and twelve collections of poetry. His theatrical works have been published in French with a foreword by Jacques Derrida and selections of his poetry have been translated into English, French and German.
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In English: Skia/Shadow, translated by David Connolly, Athens: Indiktos 2004. 149pp. ISBN: 960-518-187-8 Original Title: Skia Notes: Bilingual edition in Greek-English
In French: Humus. Camera degli sposi, translated by Leuki Molfesi and Catherine Collet. Athènes: Institut Français d'Athènes, 2000. 163pp. ISBN: 960-8473-29-2 Original Title: Ta chomata. Mia alligoria penthous. Camera degli sposi
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