Kostis Palamas
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Kostis Palamas (
Biography
Born in
He was nominated for the
He held an administrative post at the
Work
Palamas wrote the lyrics to the Olympic Hymn, composed by Spyridon Samaras. It was first performed at the 1896 Summer Olympics, the first modern Olympic Games. The Hymn was then shelved as each host city from then until the 1960 Winter Olympics commissioned an original piece for its celebration of the Games, but the version by Samaras and Palamas was declared the official Olympic Anthem in 1958 and has been performed at each celebration of the Games since the 1960 Winter Olympics.
Honors
The old administration building of the University of Athens, in central Athens, where his office was located, is now dedicated to him as the "Kostis Palamas Building" and houses the "Greek Theater Museum", as well as many temporary exhibitions.
Palamas has been informally called the "national" poet of Greece. He was an influential voice in Greek literature for more than 30 years, and greatly influenced the entire political-intellectual climate of his time. Romain Rolland considered him the greatest poet in Europe.
Works
Collections of poems
- Songs of my Fatherland (1886)
- Hymn to Athena (1889)
- Eyes of my Soul (1892)
- Iambs and Anapaests(1897)
- The Grave (1898)
- The Greetings of the Sun-born (1900)
- Ή Ασάλευτη Ζωή (The Motionless Life)(1904)
- Twelve Lays of the Gypsy (1907)
- The King's flute (1910)
- Yearnings of the Lagoon (1912)
- Satirical Exercises (1912)
- The State and Solitude (1912)
- Altars (1915)
- Extempora (1919)
- The 14 verses (1919)
- The 5 verses - The passionate secret whispers - The Wolves - Two flowers from afar (1925)
- Cowardly and Harsh verses (1928)
- The 3 Verse Cycle (1929)
- Passages and Greetings (1931)
- The Nights of Phemius (1935)
- Evening Fire (1944, posthumous edition by his son, Leander Palamas)
Prose
- Death of a Youth (novel, 1901)
- Novels (1920)
Theater
- The Thrice-noble (drama, 1903)
Criticism
Palamas was one of the most respected literary critics of his day, and instrumental in the reappraisal of the works of
Translations
- The King's Flute, tr. T. P. Stephanides, G. C. Katsimbalis (1982) [Greek and English texts]
- The King's Flute, tr. F. Will (1967)
- The Twelve Lays of the Gypsy, tr. G. Thomson (1969)
- The Twelve Words of the Gypsy, tr. T. P. Stephanides, G. C. Katsimbalis (1974; repr. 1975)
- A Hundred Voices, tr. T. P. Stephanides, G. C. Katsimbalis (1976)
- Ruins, Grief, On The Trip You Are Taken, Rose Fragrance, tr. A. Moskios[5]
References
- ^ Kostís Palamás -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia at www.britannica.com
- ^ "Το πατρικό σπίτι του Κωστή Παλαμά που βρίσκεται στην Πάτρα (Κορίνθου 241) βγήκε στο "σφυρί." | Σκάϊ 89.4 Πάτρας - Skai Patras". skaipatras.gr. Archived from the original on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^ "Palamas, Kostis, 1859-1943" at E.KE.BI / Biblionet
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature: Nominations and reports 1901–1950". www.nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 2018-11-29. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
- ^ "Poetry of Kostis Palamas". moskios.com.
External links
Media related to Kostis Palamas at Wikimedia Commons- Works by Kostes Palamas at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Kostis Palamas at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Works by or about Kostis Palamas at Internet Archive
