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He studied law and modern Greek philology at the University of Athens and worked as a professor of philology in secondary education from 1980 to 2010.
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Yannis Patilis
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He spent his childhood in Colonus and later in Patisia. He has been living in Nea Smyrni since 2005. Since 1986 he has published the literary journal Planodion, while in April 2010 he created and has since run a website for short stories called Bonsai Stories.
In 1995 he edited, with the collaboration of Elissavet Liaropoulou, the philological edition in two volumes of Angelos Simiriotis" poems (1870–1944).
Simirioti was a poet from Smyrna in Asia Minor. In 1996, he was a guest at the Hellenic Studies Program of the University of Princeton and in 2000 a guest poet at the 31st International Festival in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
His poems have been translated into many languages and have been included in many anthologies and magazines in Greece and abroad. In 1997, the literary magazine Emvolimon prepared and circulated a special issue dedicated to his poetry. collections Selected Poems (1970–1990)", translated from the Greek by Stathis Gourgouris, Quarterly Review of Literature, Books Series, Volume XXXVI, Princeton 1997.
