Tasos Leivaditis
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Tasos Leivaditis (Greek: Τάσος Λειβαδίτης; 20 April 1922 – 30 October 1988) was a Greek poet, short story writer and literary critic who belonged to the postwar generation that was deeply marked by the struggles and failures of the communist movement.[1] His early and politically committed poetry travelled through the ‘fire and sword’ of history, transforming in the end into powerful and paradoxical prose-poems, and displaying an erotically charged form of ‘neo-romanticism’ mixed with ‘melancholic minimalism’ where “genuine humility offers obeisance to the magic of language.”[2]
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Born | (1922-04-20)20 April 1922 Athens, Greece |
Died | 30 October 1988(1988-10-30) (aged 66) Athens, Greece |
Occupation | Poet, literary critic |
Citizenship | Greek |
Literary movement | Post-WWII leftist literature; "poetry of defeat" |
Notable awards | National Poetry Prize, 1979 (for "Euthanasia Manual") |
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