Thanassis Lambrou

Thanassis Lambrou is a Greek poet, prose writer, essayist and translator. He graduated from the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the School of Philosophy of the University of Freiburg i. Br. in Germany and holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Freiburg i. Br. His books include the poetic works: Meditation (1992), Triptych (1995), Irreversible (2000), Labyrinth (2004), The Seven Gates—Mourning (2012), Paths (2017), Trilogy (2023), the prose novels Light Centre (2019) and The Thread, the extensive study Under the Open Sky (2014) about Goethe᾽s Faust and the hermeneutic study Self–emptying, a line by line reading and interpretation of the Elegies of Duino by Rainer Maria Rilke. He also wrote essays on the poetry of William Blake, T. S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg. He translated into Greek poems by Angelus Silesius, the Schiller–Goethe Correspondence, poems by Friedrich Hölderlin (Literary Translation Prize, 2008, the third, augmented edition on the short list for the Greek State Translation Prize, 2022), the Elegies of Duino by Rainer Maria Rilke, poems by Georg Trakl, short stories by Ingeborg Bachmann, poems and essays by Durs Grünbein (Greek–German Literary Translation Prize, 2013), poems and prose by Max Ehrmann, Mary Oliver and others.