Background
Nanos Valaoritis was born July 5, 1921, in Lausanne, Switzerland, but grew up in Greece. He was a son of Constantine and Catherine (Leonidas) Valaoritis.
1965
Alan Ross, Andreas Empirikos and Nanos Valaoritis.
Athens 157 72, Greece
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens where Nanos Valaoritis studied Classics and Law.
Senate House, Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HU, United Kingdom
The University of London where Nanos Valaoritis studied English literature.
75005 Paris, France
The University of Paris where Nanos Valaoritis studied.
The Gold Cross of Honour that Nanos Valaoritis received in 2004.
Nanos Valaoritis at home.
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Full of wit and wonder, these prose poems, meditations, and narratives open onto rare and unexpected vistas of history and myth, language, and the art of writing.
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1990
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Nanos Valaoritis was born July 5, 1921, in Lausanne, Switzerland, but grew up in Greece. He was a son of Constantine and Catherine (Leonidas) Valaoritis.
Nanos Valaoritis attended the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens where he studied Classics and Law from 1940 to 1943. He also studied English literature at London University and followed courses of Mycenean Grammar with Michel Lejeune at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne.
Nanos Valaoritis started his career as a poet in 1939 when his first poems were published in the pages of George Katsimbalis’ review Nea Grammata. When World War II broke out Valaoritis escaped Greece and moved to California and then to London where he worked for Louis MacNeice at the BBC. Valaoritis also translated modernist Greek poets such as Elytis and Embirikos. His first collection of poems called The Punishment of the Mages was published in 1947. In 1954, he moved to Paris and wrote the second collection of poems Central Arcade.
Nanos Valaoritis returned to Greece in 1960 and worked as an editor and publisher of the Greek avant-garde literary review Pali. In 1967 he went to America and in 1968 took up a post of an instructor at San Francisco State University and worked there until 1993. He was a contributor of poetry and prose, in English, French, and Greek, to literary magazines, including Chicago Review, Kayak, Encounter, Folio, Manroot, Ohio Literary Review, Poetry Wales, Hellenic Journal, Horizon, Caravanes, Surrealisme, Fin de Siecle, Change, France Libre, Poetry, and London Magazine. At that time he wrote such novels as The Traitor of the Written Words, The Murder, My Afterlife Guaranteed, Paramythologia and also published his new poems. Valaoritis returned to Greece in 2004.
(Full of wit and wonder, these prose poems, meditations, a...)
1990In the 2007 election, Nanos Valaoritis headed the ballot box with the Green Party.
Nanos Valaoritis married Anne Firth in 1947. The marriage produced a son. Nanos and Anne divorced. His second wife became Marie Wilson. The marriage produced three children.