Anestis Evangelou (1937-1994), was born in Thessaloniki. He made his literary debut in 1960 with a collection of poems, Description of Eviction. He subsequently published another seven volumes of verse: Breathing Method (1966), Bloodletting ’66-70 (1971), Poems 1956-70 (1974), Interval (1976), Hai Kai (1978), Denuding (1979) The Visit and Other Poems (1987), and The Snow and Devastation. In 1988 he published his collected poetry in The Poems: 1956-1986. He also published a work of fiction, The Hotel and the House (1981, revised and enlarged in 1985), a collection of literary reviews, Reading and Writing (1981), and an essay, Nine Interpretations of Poetry and Poetics (1990). His work has been translated into many languages.
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In Dutch: Het dieprode bloed, translated by Kirsti de Hek and Harmen Sikkenga. Groningen: Hana, 1997. 12 p.
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