| Artist ArchiveMENIS KOUMANTAREAS
Writer
Menis Koumantareas was born in Athens, in 1931. He completed his general studies at the Lyceum of Athens and tested his powers in Philosophy and Law School, which he left uncompleted. He neither completed the theater studies, while for a very short time he was devoted to journalism. He served his military service in the Navy and worked for twenty years as an employee of shipping and insurance. In 1972, he studied with scholarship (DAAD) in Berlin for six months. The letters appeared in 1961 in Moravia Translations, Hemingway, Joyce, in the Postman magazine. In 1962 the first collection of short stories scooters was published. His writings were published in many literary magazines (Election, Art Review, Tram, Eridanus, the Postman, Panos street, the Word and others). During the seven years, he took part in the resistance issue "18 Texts" and he was led three times for trial under the Obscene Publications Act for the work of "The Sail". He was awarded the State Prize short story (1967 for the "Sail"), the State Prize novel (1975 for the "Craft Glassware"), and the State Prize in 1997 for short story collection "Their smell makes me cry". He is a founding member of Writers' Company and from 1982 to 1986 he participated in the Board National Opera. Since 1982 he dedicated to writing. The books of "Madam Koula", "The poors" and "the Shirt with number 9" were films for television and cinema. Central character and scope of action to all works of Menis Koumandareas was and still is the city of Athens, where the author juxtaposes the vulnerable person in the history and fate, speaks to the individual and collective denial, through stories in which everyone recognizes himself. Tireless observer of everyday life, Menis Koumantareas listens to the pace and the problems of time and continues, until now, giving a fresh and unpretentious style. Also, his contribution to the engagement of foreign prose in our country is important, regarding the translations of the works of William Faulkner, Hermann Hesse, Carson Mc Callers, Herman Melville, Georg Buchner, etc. His works is published by Cedar.
PROSE
The scooters. Tales 1962
The sail. Tales 1967
The poors. Tales 1972
Crafts glassware. Novel 1975
Madam Koula. Novel 1978
The barbershop. Novel 1979
Seraphim and cherubim. Tales 1981
The handsome captain. Novel 1982
The shirt with number 9. Novel 1986
Peripatetic trumpeter. Fourteen texts 1989
The gang harp. Mythistorima 1993
Their smell makes me cry 1996
The day for the text, and the night for the body 1999
Twice Greek, Novel 2001
Noe, Novel 2003
The Show is of the Greeks, novels 2008
The camp in the wilderness edge, novel 2009
TRANSLATIONS
Mc CALLERS, Carson
The ballad of the sad cafe. Novel 1969
TRANSLATION: MENIS KOUMANTAREAS
FAULKERS, William
While fading away 1970
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