Manolis Pratikakis

Manolis Pratikakis
Manolis Pratikakis
Born	1943 Myrtos, Ierapetra, Greece
Occupation	poet
Nationality	Greek
Period	1974–present

Manolis Pratikakis (Greek: Μανόλης Πρατικάκης; born 1943) is a Greek poet. He read Medicine at the University of Athens and he is a practicing neurologist and psychiatrist. His first collection of poems was published in 1974; he belongs to the so-called Genia tou 70, which is a literary term referring to Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and at the first years of the Metapolitefsi. For his collection of poems Το νερό, in 2003, he received the Greek National Book Award.

Selected poetry

• Ποίηση 1971-1974 (Poetry 1971-1974), 1974
• Οι παραχαράκτες (The Counterfeiters), 1976
• Λιβιδώ (Libido), 1978
• Η παραλοϊσμένη (The Demented), 1980
• Γενεαλογία (Genealogy), 1984
• Το νερό (The Water), 2002
• Ποιήματα 1984-2000 (Poems 1984-2000), 2003

External links

• His page at the website of the Hellenic Authors' Society (Greek)