Contemporary Greek Literature
Contemporary Greek literature is usually (but not exclusively) written in polytonic orthography, though the monotonic orthography was made official in 1981 by Andreas Papandreou. Contemporary Greek literature is represented by many writers, poets and novelists: Dionysios Solomos, Andreas Kalvos, Angelos Sikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, Constantine P. Cavafy, Demetrius Vikelas, while George Seferis and Odysseas Elytis have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Other writers include:
- Manolis Anagnostakis
- Athanasios Christopoulos
- Nicolas Calas
- Kiki Dimoula
- Maro Douka
- Nikos Engonopoulos
- Nikos Gatsos
- Iakovos Kambanelis
- Nikos Kavvadias
- Andreas Karkavitsas
- Kostas Krystallis
- Dimitris Lyacos
- Petros Markaris
- Jean Moréas
- Stratis Myrivilis
- Dimitris Psathas
- Ioannis Psycharis
- Alexandros Rizos Rangavis
- Miltos Sahtouris
- Giannis Skarimpas
- Dido Sotiriou
- Alexandros Soutsos
- Panagiotis Soutsos
- Angelos Terzakis
- Aristotelis Valaoritis
- Kostas Varnalis
- Vassilis Vassilikos
- Elias Venezis
- Nikephoros Vrettakos
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