Strange Days Books present for the first time in Greece a
collection of selected poems by the Nobel Prize-winning Spanish poet Vicente
Aleixandre. Spanish Nobel-prize winning poet, Vicente Alexeixanrde is a poet
whose sublime work has oddly enough never been translated in Greek in spite of
its undisputed literary quality. We are proud to present his work for the first
time ever to the greek readers.
The anthology "Light, Love, Death" with
introduction and translation by Nancy Aggeli who has been involved for many years
with the work of the poet. The book includes 43 poems from collections that cover
the entire range of his work. Of course, this edition, which belongs to the
series Strange Days in Europe, would not have been possible without the
co-funding of the European Union translation program through Creative Europe.
The book is published with a cover by Adriana Minou.
Vicente Aleixandre was
born in Sevilla (Spain) on April 26, 1898. He spent his childhood in Malaga and
he has lived in Madrid since 1909. Studied law at the University of Madrid and
at the Madrid School of Economics. Beginning in 1925 he has completely devoted
himself to literature. His first book of poems, Ambit, appeared in 1928.
Since that date he has written and published a score of books. In 1933, he
received the National Literary Prize for his work Destruction or Love.
He spent the Civil War in the Republican zone. He fell ill and remained in
Madrid at the end of the conflict, silenced by the new authorities for four
years. In 1944, he published The Shadow of Paradise, still maintaining
his independence of the established political situation. In 1950, he became a
member of the Spanish Academy. His books and anthologies have been published up
to the present day. The Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize for
Literature for the totality of his work in 1977.
Nancy Angeli was born in1982. She studied Journalism
and Mass Media Communication at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since
2008 shehas lived in Spain where she works as a translator and as a Greek and
Englishlanguage teacher. She is the author of two short storycollections and
has participated in the annual collective anthology of short stories “Bonsai
Stories”, Vol. 2014, 2015 & 2016 published by the acclaimed Greek literary
review “Planodion- Bonsai Stories” in collaboration with the “Gavrielides Books
Publishing House”. In Spain she has published the bilingual poetry collection
“Antagonía” forthe Andalusian poet Juan Carlos Friebe. She collaborated with
the “Centre of Byzantine, Modern Greek and Cypriot Studies” of the University
of Granada and with the “Institut Virtual Internacional de Traducció”of the
University of Alicante.She is a regular contributor to many online magazines both
as a writer and as a translator.
