Evgenios Aranitsis

Evgenios Aranitsis (Greek: Ευγένιος Αρανίτσης; born 1955), is a Greek poet, novelist and essayist

Aranitsis was born in Corfu. In 1986, in collaboration with Odysseas Elytis, he published the lyrical album The Room with the Pictures. The collection To whom Corfu Belongs (1999) was awarded the state literary prize for the essay genre. Since 1978 he has been a columnist for “Eleftherotypia”. Since the beginnings of the 1990s he has been working on a magnum opus of poetry entitiled Order and Anarchy, sections of which have at times appeared in literary journals. In 2007, the journal Porfyras published a special issue on his work. In the same year, a French translation of his novel Details from the End of the World (1993) was published by Flammarion.

Works

(With Odysseas Elytis) The Room with the Pictures, (Το δωμάτιο με τις εικόνες, 1986)
Africa (Αφρική, 1988);
Poems & Acts (Ποιήματα & Πράξεις, 1990);
Details from the End of the World (Λεπτομέρειες για το τέλος του κόσμου, 1993)
Stories liked by Some People I know (Ιστορίες που άρεσαν σε μερικούς ανθρώπους που ξέρω, 1995);
Physics (Φυσική, 1995);
The Sea (Η θάλασσα, 1998);
To whom Corfu Belongs (Σε ποιον ανήκει η Κέρκυρα, 1999)
Orphan Drugs (1999);
Ips typographus: Elytis for Children and Lovers (Ιψ ο τυπογράφος: Ο Ελύτης για παιδιά και ερωτευμένους, 2000)
Summer on the Hard Disc (Καλοκαίρι στον σκληρό δίσκο, 2002).