Kostis Papagiorgis

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Kostis Papagiorgis (Greek: Κωστής Παπαγιώργης; born 1947) is a Greek essayist, columnist and translator of philosophical studies.^[1]

Biography

A teacher's son, he was born in 1947 in Neochori, Ypati and has lived in Kymi (1951–1960), Chalandri (where he lives permanently), Thessaloníki (1966–1967) and Paris (1969–1975).

He has attended law school in Thessaloníki and philosophy in Paris, without, however, having completed his studies. He has been writing and translating since the latter half of the 1970s, while at the same time working in publishing. He has published the theoretical magazine "Chora". Since 1987 he is distinguished in writing essays.

In 2002 he was honored with the Sate Literary Award (Greece's most prestigious literary award) for his work "Kanellos Delegiannis".

At present, he lives and works in Athens and is married to Rania Stathopoulou. He writes for the Greek free press magazine LIFO.

References

↑ Panourgia, Neni (October 1994). "Essay Review: Objects at Birth, Subjects at Death". Journal of Modern Greek Studies (in Kostis Papagiorgis's [work]‚ (1991) follows the same path but with one significant difference that his secular orientation places humanity, not religion, at the crux of his analytical conclusions. ...) 12 (2): 261–269. doi:10.1353/mgs.2010.0206.

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Name	Papagiorgis, Kostis
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Short description	Greek writer
Date of birth	1947
Place of birth	Neochori, Ypati
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