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Valtinos, Thanasis / Βαλτινός, Θανάσης (b. 1932)

Valtinos, Thanassis. "The Descent of the Nine" (1973) 4.5445

Translator: Germanacos, N.C.

In Boundary 2: A Journal of Postmodern Literature and Culture 1.2 (Winter 1973)

Prose
Valtinos, Thanassis. "Journal from Iowa (1976-1977)" (1987) 4.5446

In The World Comes to Iowa 1987

Prose
Valtinos, Thanasis. "Nekuia: Journey to the Dead" | "God's Still on the Throne" (1995) 4.5447

Translator: Deligiorgis, Stavros

In World Letter 6 ( 1995)

Short story
Valtinos, Thanassis. "Panayotis" (1997) 4.5448

Translators: Assimakopoulos, Jane; Deligiorgis, Stavros

In Greece: A Traveler's Literary Companion 1997

Short story
Valtinos, Thanassis. "Panayotis: A Biographical Note" (1987) 4.5449

Translator: Taylor, John

In Aegean Review 2 (Spring/Summer 1987)

Short story
Valtinos, Thanassis. "Πελοπόννησος: Εικόνες μύθου και ιστορίας / The Peloponnese: Images of Myth and History" (1995) 4.5450

Translator: Ramp, Philip

In Πελοπόννησος: Εικόνες μύθου και ιστορίας / The Peloponnese: Images of Myth and History 1995

Prose
Valtinos, Thanassis. "Peter and Pat" (1992) 4.5451

Translator: Gauntlett, Stathis

In Ulitarra 2 ( 1992)

Short story
Valtinos, Thanasis. "The Plaster Cast" (1972) 4.5452

Translator: Vasils, Theodora

In Eighteen Texts 1972

Short story
Valtinos, Thanassis. "Roses for Maria A." (2001) 4.5453

Translator: Assimakopoulos, Jane

In Hellenic Quarterly 7 (Winter 2001)

Short story
Valtinos, Thanassis. "[Short Stories]" (1996) 4.5454

Translators: Deligiorgis, Stavros; Assimakopoulos, Jane

In The Iowa Review 26.1 (Spring 1996)

Short story
Valtinos, Thanassis. "The Step-Father" (1996) 4.5455

Translators: Assimakopoulos, Jane; Deligiorgis, Stavros

In The Athenian July 1996

Short story
Valtinos, Thanassis. "Thanassis Valtinos looks for Greeks in New Orleans" (2009) 4.5456 wordswithoutborders.org

Translator: Assimakopoulos, Jane

In March 2009

In Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature March 2009

Novel (excerpt)
Paivanas, Dimitris. "The Violence of Narratives. History, Ideology, Culture in the Fiction of Thanasis Valtinos and Its Reception" (2006) 4.5456-5

Topic: Valtinos, Thanasis / Βαλτινός, Θανάσης (b. 1932)

Study
Alyfantakis, Iakovos. "Patterns of Recollection and Historical Testimony in Thanasis Valtinos' Orthokosta" (2010) 4.5457

Topic: Valtinos, Thanasis / Βαλτινός, Θανάσης (b. 1932)

In Études Helléniques / Hellenic Studies 18.1 ( 2010)

Study
Anastasiadis, Athanasios. "Trauma-Memory-Narration: Greek Civil War Novels of the 1980s and 1990s" (2011) 4.5458

Topic: Valtinos, Thanasis / Βαλτινός, Θανάσης (b. 1932)

In Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 35.1 ( 2011)

Study
Calotychos, Vangelis. "Thanassis Valtinos' Deep Blue Almost Black and Data from the Decade of the Sixties" (2002) 4.5459

Topic: Valtinos, Thanasis / Βαλτινός, Θανάσης (b. 1932)

In Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora 28.1 ( 2002)

Study
Calotychos, Vangelis. "Writing Wrongs, (Re)Righting (Hi)story?: «Orthotita» and «Ortho-graphia» in Thanassis Valtinos's Orthokosta" (2000) 4.5460

Topic: Valtinos, Thanasis / Βαλτινός, Θανάσης (b. 1932)

In Gramma 8 ( 2000)

Study
Charalambidou, Nadia. "Time and Place in a Novel of the Greek Civil War: Thanasis Valtinos' The Descent of the Nine" (1992) 4.5461

Topic: Valtinos, Thanasis / Βαλτινός, Θανάσης (b. 1932)

In Journal of Mediterranean Studies 2.2 ( 1992)

Study
Exarchopoulou, Lily. "America of Andreas Kordopatis and America of Billy Moropoulos: Aspects of 'Otherness' in the Novels of Thanassis Valtinos and Sote Triantafillou" (2001) 4.5462

Topic: Valtinos, Thanasis / Βαλτινός, Θανάσης (b. 1932)

Translator: Goumas, Yannis

In Hellenic Quarterly 7 (Winter 2001)

Study
Germanacos, N.C. "An Interview with Three Contemporary Greek Prose Writers (May 1972): Stratis Tsirkas, Thanassis Valtinos, George Ioannou" (1973) 4.5463

Topic: Valtinos, Thanasis / Βαλτινός, Θανάσης (b. 1932)

In Boundary 2: A Journal of Postmodern Literature and Culture 1.2 (Winter 1973)

Study
Kakavoulia, Maria. "In and Out of the Text: Games across Genres in Modern Greek Fiction" (2004) 4.5464

Topic: Valtinos, Thanasis / Βαλτινός, Θανάσης (b. 1932)

In Contemporary Greek Fiction in a United Europe: From Local History to the Global Individual 2004

Study
Maglinis, Elias. "Writers on Themselves" (1999) 4.5465

Topic: Valtinos, Thanasis / Βαλτινός, Θανάσης (b. 1932)

In Ithaca 2 (Autumn 1999)

Study
Paivanas, Dimitris. "Cold Wars after 1989: Thanasis Valtinos' Orthokosta and Its Reception" (2010) 4.5466

Topic: Valtinos, Thanasis / Βαλτινός, Θανάσης (b. 1932)

In Études Helléniques / Hellenic Studies 18.1 ( 2010)

Study
Païvanas, Dimitris. "Ideology's Discontents in Thanassis Valtinos's Data from the Decade of the Sixties" (2004) 4.5467

Topic: Valtinos, Thanasis / Βαλτινός, Θανάσης (b. 1932)

In Contemporary Greek Fiction in a United Europe: From Local History to the Global Individual 2004

Study
Païvanas, Dimitris. "A Post-Modern Lesson in History: The Incomplete Rhetoric of Thanasis Valtinos's The Descent of the Nine" (2005) 4.5468

Topic: Valtinos, Thanasis / Βαλτινός, Θανάσης (b. 1932)

In Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 29.2 ( 2005)

Study
Papageorgiou, Vasilis. "Here, before Us: On the Prose Writer Thanasis Valtinos" (2010) 4.5469

Topic: Valtinos, Thanasis / Βαλτινός, Θανάσης (b. 1932)

In Here, and Ηere: Essays of Affirmation and Tragic Awareness 2010

Study
Papailias, Penelope. "Reading (Civil) War, the Historical Novel, and the Left" (2005) 4.5470

Topic: Valtinos, Thanasis / Βαλτινός, Θανάσης (b. 1932)

In Genres of Recollection: Archival Poetics and Modern Greece 2005

Study
Roilos, Panagiotis. "Thanassis Valtinos, Data from the Decade of the Sixties: A Novel" (2001) 4.5471 jhu.edu

Topic: Valtinos, Thanasis / Βαλτινός, Θανάσης (b. 1932)

In Journal of Modern Greek Studies 19.2 (October 2001)

Study
Valamvanos, George. "Συναξάρι του Ανδρέα Κορδοπάτη (Recollections of Andreas Kordopatis) by Thanasis Valtinos, Athens 1975" (1978) 4.5472

Topic: Valtinos, Thanasis / Βαλτινός, Θανάσης (b. 1932)

In Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora 4.4 ( 1978)

Study

Varnalis, Kostas / Βάρναλης, Κώστας (1884-1974)

Varnalis, Kostas. The True Apology of Socrates: A Satire (1955) 4.5473

Translator: Yaloussis, Stephen

Prose
Varnalis, Kostas. "Aphrodite" | "The 4 Mistakes of the 'Unknown Soldier'" (1975) 4.5474

Translator: Friar, Kimon

In The Athenian Feb. 1975

Poetry
Varnalis, Kostas. "Magdalene" (1998) 4.5475

Translator: Friar, Kimon

In Divine Inspiration: The Life of Jesus in World Poetry 1998

Poetry
Michailidou, T.K. "Varnalis's Work: A Case of Commitment" (1981) 4.5476

Topic: Varnalis, Kostas / Βάρναλης, Κώστας (1884-1974)

Study
Alexiou, Christos. "Kostas Varnalis" (1980) 4.5477

Topic: Varnalis, Kostas / Βάρναλης, Κώστας (1884-1974)

In Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature 1980

Study
Yatromanolakis, Yorgis. "The Prometheus Myth in Modern Greek Poetry and Drama: An Outline and Two Examples" (1996) 4.5478

Topic: Varnalis, Kostas / Βάρναλης, Κώστας (1884-1974)

In Ancient Myth in Modern Greek Poetry: Essays in Memory of C.A. Trypanis 1996

Study

Varveris, Giannis / Βαρβέρης, Γιάννης (1955-2011)

Varveris, Yannis. Mr. Fogg (2001) 4.5479

Translator: Ramp, Philip

Poetry
Varveris, Yiannis. "Four Poems" (2002) 4.5480

Translator: Caloyeras, Aliki

In Mondo Greco 8 (Fall 2002)

Poetry
Varvéris, Yánnis. From Invalid Miracle (1996) (1999) 4.5481

Translator: Darragh, Simon

In Agenda 36.3-4 (Spring 1999)

Poetry
Varvéris, Yánnis. "My Head" | "The Beak" | "Mighty Wing over the Bedsheet" | "Hostia" | "What Love Portends" (1980) 4.5482

Translator: Goumas, Yannis

In Pacific Quarterly Moana 5.3 (July 1980)

Poetry
Varvéris, Yánnis. "The Neckties of the Dead" (Οι γραβάτες των πεθαμένων) | "Mosquito Allegory" (Η αλληγορία του κώνωπος) (2001) 4.5483

Translator: Goumas, Yannis

In Μπιλιέτο / Bilieto 1 (Ιούλιος-Δεκέμβριος 2001)

Poetry
Varveris, Yiannis. "Useless Guide to the Center of Athens" (2004) 4.5484

Translator: Michalopoulou-Lalacos, Anna

In Mondo Greco 11 (Spring 2004)

Poetry
Maglinis, Elias. "Yannis Varveris: Poetry Is First and Foremost Language" (2002) 4.5485

Topic: Varveris, Giannis / Βαρβέρης, Γιάννης (1955-2011)

In Ithaca 16 (June 2002)

Study

Varvitsiotis, Takis / Βαρβιτσιώτης, Τάκης (1916-2011)

Varvitsiotis, Takis. The Anna of Absence ([n.d.]) 4.5486

Translator: Friar, Kimon

Poetry
Varvitsiotis, Takis. The Eye in the Mirror: Selected Poems (1990) 4.5487

Translator: Friar, Kimon

Poetry
Varvitsiotis, Takis. Testimony of the Mirror (1985) 4.5488

Translator: Friar, Kimon

Poetry
Varvitsiotis, Takis. Clasped Hands (1986-89) 4.5489

Translator: Friar, Kimon

In Greek Letters 4 ( 1986-89)

Poetry
Varvitsiotis, Takis. "Silence of the Moon" | "She Who Spins the Day" | "Nocturne for a Dead Spring" (1965) 4.5490

Translator: Waters, Michaele

In Athene 26.2 (Summer 1965)

Poetry
Varvitsiotis, Takis. "A Small Monument to the West Wind" | "Do Not Ever Say" | "The Earth Is Not This World" (1968) 4.5491

Translator: Friar, Kimon

In The Charioteer 10 ( 1968)

Poetry
Varvitsiotis, Takis. "Testimony of the Mirror" | "When the Poet" | "Prince of the Scintillation of Seas" | "And Thus Death Also" (1999) 4.5492

Translator: Friar, Kimon

In Authors and Pages in Greek Literature: Frankfurt 2001 / Greece Guest of Honour 1999

Poetry
Varvitsiotis, Takis. "Three Poems" (1969) 4.5493

Translator: Friar, Kimon

In Chicago Review 21.2 (Aug. 1969)

Poetry
Varvitsiotis, Takis. "Two Poems" (1973) 4.5494

Translator: Friar, Kimon

In The Literary Review 16.3 (Spring 1973)

Poetry

Vasilakakos, Giannis / Βασιλακάκος, Γιάννης (b. 1951)

Vasilakakos, Giannis. The Set-Up (1996) 4.5495

Translator: Mylonas, Mary

Novel
Vasilakakos, John. The Shipwreck of the S.O.S.: Profile of Tyranny (1985) 4.5496

Translator: Mylonas, Mary

Novel
Vasilakakos, John. "Portents and Monsters" (2007-8) 4.5497

Translator: Grundy, Philip

In Greek Letters 20 ( 2007-8)

Short story
Vasilakakos, John. "The Relocation" (2007-8) 4.5498

Translator: Grundy, Philip

In Greek Letters 20 ( 2007-8)

Short story

Vasilakis, Nikos / Βασιλάκης, Νίκος (b. 1934)

Vassilákis, Nikos. "Lord, No One Knew Us" (Κανείς δε μας γνώριζε Κύριε); "Gold Crown" (Χρυσή κορόνα); "The Swallows" [sic: Sparrows] (Τα σπουργίτια); "Like a Wild Flower" (Σαν τ᾿ αγριολούλουδο); "There's Room for All" (Όλοι χωράνε); "The Stool" (Το σκαμνί)." (2004) 4.5499

Translator: Goumas, Yannis

Poetry

Vasilakopoulos, George / Βασιλακόπουλος, Γιώργος

Vassilacopoulos, George. The Pleasure of Exile / Η ηδονή της εξορίας (2017)

Translator: Lyssiotis, Peter

Poetry

Vasilikos, Vasilis / Βασιλικός, Βασίλης (1934-2023)

Vassilikos, Vassilis. Z. 50th anniversary edition (2017)

Translator: Calmann, Marilyn

Novel
Apanomeritaki, Eirini. "Transforming Narratives: Subjectivity and Metamorphosis in Franz Kafka, Vladimir Nabokov, Alejo Carpentier, Vassilis Vassilikos, Virginia Woolf, and Marie Darrieussecq" (2018)

Topic: Vasilikos, Vasilis / Βασιλικός, Βασίλης (1934-2023)

Study
Vassilikos, Vassilis. … and Dreams Are Dreams (2018)

Translator: Kitroëff, Mary

Short story