ΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ ΒΑΡΒΕΡΗΣ 1955-2011 (2) συνέντευξη στον Δαυίδ Ναχμία

Interviewed by David Nachmias for the Greek National Television ERT the POET John Varveris. Yiannis Varveris was born in Athens in 1955 and studied law. He has published nine collections of poems and an anthology, Poems 1975-1996 (Kedros 2000). He has also published translations of Aristophanes, Menander, Moliere, Marivaux, Whitman, Cendrars, Prevert, Mrozek, Carrington, Ferre, Brassens and an anthology of verse about death. Since 1976 he has written theatre reviews for Tomes and Lexi magazines and Kathimerini newspaper. He has published these articles and other theoretical texts on the theatre in four volumes. Translations of his poems into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Romanian have appeared in anthologies. His translations of ancient and modern comedies have been performed at Epidaurus and other theaters, In 2001 he won the Cavafy prize and in 2002 he won Diavazo magazine's poetry prize for his collection In Foreign Parts. He is a member of the Hellenic Society of Authors. Yiannis Varveris's poems take the solitude of the body to its existential limits Καλλιτεχνικός σύμβουλος Αλέξης Κώστας Alexis Kostas. Υπεύθυνη εκπομπής: Δήμητρα Γκουντούνα. performing: Kevork Kevorkian (Kokos) accordeon Dinos Hatziiordanou Χατζηιορδάνου percussions Alexis Kostas Αλέξης Κώστας bass: Hristos Tzortzis Χρήστος Τζώρτζης guitar: Vassilis Podaras Βασίλης Ποδάρας piano and arrangement David Nachmias Δαυίδ Ναχμίας flute: Stella Anastasopoulou Στέλλα Αναστασοπούλου drums Kostas Anastasiadis Κώστας Αναστασιάδης