List of modern Greek poets

This article is concerned with modern Greek poets. For earlier artists, see List of Ancient Greek poets.

This is a list of modern Greek poets (years link to corresponding "[year] in poetry" article):

• Andreas Kalvos (1792–1869)
• Dionysios Solomos (1798–1857)
• George Tsimbidaros-Fteris (1891–1967)
• Andreas Laskaratos (1811–1901)
• Aristotelis Valaoritis (1824–1879)
• Kostis Palamas (1859–1943)
• (1879–1932)
• Athos Dimoulas (1921–1985)
• Constantine Cavafy (1863–1933)
• Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957)
• Angelos Sikelianos (1884–1951)
• Kostas Varnalis (1884–1974)
• Napoleon Lapathiotis (1889–1944)
• Giannis Skarimpas (1893–1984)
• Kostas Karyotakis (1896–1928)
• Giorgos Seferis (1900–1971)
• Andreas Empeirikos (1901–1975)
• Maria Polydouri (1902–1930)
• D.I. Antoniou (1906–1994)
• Nikos Engonopoulos (1907–1985)
• Yannis Ritsos (1909–1990)
• Nikos Kavadias (1910–1975)
• Alexander Mátsas (1910–1969)
• Odysseus Elytis (1911–1996)
• Nikiforos Vrettakos (1912–1991)
• Nikos Gatsos (1915–1992)
• Takis Sinopoulos (1917–1981)
• Miltos Sachtouris (1919–2005)
• Ektor Kaknavatos (1920–2010)
• Nanos Valaoritis (1921-2019)
• Aris Alexandrou (1922–1978)
• Manolis Anagnostakis (1925–2005)
• Nikos Karouzos (1926–1990)
• Nikos Fokas (1927-2021)
• Dinos Christianopoulos (b. 1931 –2020)
• Kiki Dimoula (b. 1931 –2020)
• Tassos Denegris (1934–2009)
• Stefanos Tassopoulos (1939–2013)
• Katerina Gogou (1940–1993)
• Kyriakos Charalambides (b. 1940)
• Yannis Kondos (b. 1943)
• Lefteris Poulios (b. 1944)
• Christoforos Liontakis (b. 1945)
• Nikos Panagiotopoulos (b. 1945)
• Natasha Hadjidaki (b. 1946)
• Vassilis Steriadis (b. 1947)
• Dimitris Varos (b. 1949)
• Antonis Fostieris (b. 1953)
• Sotiris Kakisis (b. 1954)
• Haris Vlavianos (b. 1957)
• Alexis Stamatis (b. 1960)
• Dimitris Lyacos (b. 1966)

See also[]

• Modern Greek literature

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