Michalis Ganas

Michalis Ganas was born in Tsamantas, Thesprotia, in 1944. Since 1962, he has lived and worked in Athens, where he moved to study law. He worked as a bookseller for fifteen years and later collaborated with the state television as a literary program editor and screenwriter. Since 1989, he has been a copywriter at an advertising agency. His poems have been translated into various languages, and his lyrics have been set to music by renowned Greek and international composers such as M. Theodorakis, N. Mamangakis, N. Xydakis, D. Papadimitriou, N. Kypourgos, G. Bregovic, A. Dinkjian, among others. He translated Aristophanes' "The Clouds" for the Art Theatre - Karolos Koun and Aeschylus' "Seven Against Thebes" for the Patras Municipal and Regional Theatre. In 1994, he was awarded the State Prize for Poetry for his book "Paralogi." In December 2011, he received the Poetry Prize from the Petros Haris Foundation of the Academy of Athens for his entire body of work. In 2017, he was honored with a Special Mention by the magazine "Anagnostis" for his book "Homer's Odyssey" (Metaichmio, 2016).