Ektor Kaknavatos

Ektor Kaknavatos (Greek: Έκτωρ Κακναβάτος) is the pen name of Greek poet and essayist Yorgis Kontoyorgis (Γιώργος Κοντογιώργης; 1920 – 9 November 2010), who was born in Piraeus, Greece. Between 1937 and 1941 he studied mathematics in Athens. After World War II he worked as a teacher of mathematics and then as a civil servant in the Ministry of education.

He appeared for the first time with the collection Fuga in 1943. After 18 years of silence, in 1961, he circulated in a small circle of friends the collection Diaspora (Dissemination). A pure surrealist, he experiences poetically-revolutionary the paradox of his Greek fate.

Bibliography

• Fuga (1943)
• I klimaka tou lithou – Diaspora (1961)
• Tetrapsifio me tin evdomi chordi (1972)
• Diigisi (1974)
• Odos Laistrygonon (1978)
• Ta machairia tis Kirkis (1981)
• Anastixi tou thrylou gia ta nefra tis politeias (1981)
• In perpetuum (1983)
• Kivotio tachytiton (1987)
• Oiakismoi tou Menesthea Kastelanou tou Mystros (1995)
• Chaotika I (1997)
• Ypsikaminizouses neoplasies (2001)
• Akarei (2001)
• Sta proso Iachis (2005)
• Vrachea ke Makra (2005)
• Sfodra airetiko imerologio tou 2000 (in cooperation with Spyros Kaniouras) (1999)
• To klarino i Safari sto verso tou pragmatikou (2005)

Collected works

• Piimata 1943–1974
• Piimata 1978–1987

References

• Ektor Kaknavatos at Ekebi.gr