George Blanas was born in 1959 in Aegaleo. He had studied librarianship.
The 2015, received, as literature.gr writes, the state award for translation of foreign literature for the translation of the work “Life and Destiny” by Vasili Grossman, while earlier he was honored with the prize of the “Diavazo” magazine for his poetry collection “Stassiotis [1-50]” as well as with the praise “Karolos Koun” for the translation of the tragedy of Euripides “Heracles the Raging”.
Translations of it have been used in tragedies in the ancient theater of Epidaurus and in the Conservatory of Herod of Atticus.
Zoe Swims Like a Whale Unsuspecting Before the Massacre (Hyakinthos 1987)
Your Inevitable Fertility (Diatton 1990)
Night (Clouds 1991)
Insane! (Dolphin 1997)
Anna (Erato 1998)
His Answer (Nefeli 2000)
Episode (Nefeli 2002)
The Poems of the Previous Century (collections 1987-1997, Erato 2004)
Ode To Georgios Karaiskakis (Gavriilidis, 2009)
Stopping [1-50] (Gavrielides, 2010)
Essays[Επεξεργασία | επεξεργασία κώδικα]
The Poetic Event (Gavrielides 2013)
Poets in the Shadow I (Gavriilidis 2012)
Poets in the Shadow (Gavrielidis 2013)
Translations[Επεξεργασία | επεξεργασία κώδικα]
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Endless Life (Arden, 1982)
Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell (Attempt, 1986), Urban Drunk (Attempt, 1987), Dirty World (Attempt, 1988), Ham Toast (Letters 1990), Corner of Terror and Agony (Attempt, 1994) , Police (Attempt, 1996)
William Blake, The Songs of Innocence (Erato 2002), The Book of Thel (Erato 2003), The Songs of Piraeus (Erato 2004)
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Alphabet (Electra 2004), Ghost Stories (Electra 2005)
Allen Ginsberg, Screaming (Free Press 2002)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A People’s Manifesto (Free Press 1988)
Gregory Corso, Gasoline (Free Press 1989)
Homer, Iliad (Rhapsodies I’, I’, K’, Gavrielides 2001)
Archilochus, Poems and Thrypsalas (Gavrielidis 2001)
Alexander Pushkin, The Negro of Peter the Great (Erato 2006)
Dylan Thomas And Death Shall Have No Power: Poems (Erato, 2000)
Kobayasi Issa, Flies and Buddhas (Gavrielides 2002)
Matsuo Basso, Only My Dreams Go On (Erato 2002)
Sofocles, Philoktitis (Gavrielides 2003), Aias (Gavrielides 2011)
Euripides, Heracles Raging (Nefeli 2010)
Vasily Grossman, Life and Destiny (Govostis 2013)
D. H. Lawrence, The Plumed Reptile (Nepheli 2009)
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