Eygenios Aranitsis

Eugenios Aranitsis was born in Corfu in 1955. Since 1974, he has been living in Athens. He has been working for the newspaper "Eleftherotypia" since 1978. In 1976, he founded the publishing house "Akmon," which he managed throughout its journey. He has written numerous essays and articles on Greek and foreign literature, which were later compiled into three volumes. In 1986, in collaboration with Odysseas Elytis, they published the work "The Room with the Pictures." He was awarded the State Literature Prize in 2000 for his essay "To Whom Does Corfu Belong" (1999). His other works include: "Africa," 1988, "Poems and Acts," 1990, "Details on the End of the World," 1993 (published in French by Flammarion, 2007), "Stories Liked by Some People I Know," 1995, "The Sea," 1998, "Orphan Drugs," 1999, "Ips the Typographer: Elytis for Children and Lovers," 2000, "Summer on the Hard Disk," 2002, "Late Antiquity," 2003.