Manolis Pratikakis

Manolis Pratikakis (Μανόλης Πρατικάκης; born 1943) is a Greek poet. He read Medicine at the University of Athens and he is a practicing neurologist and psychiatrist. His first collection of poems was published in 1974; he belongs to the so-called Genia tou 70, which is a literary term referring to Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and at the first years of the Metapolitefsi. For his collection of poems Το νερό, in 2003, he received the Greek National Book Award.

Selected poetry

 * Ποίηση 1971-1974 (Poetry 1971-1974), 1974
 * Οι παραχαράκτες (The Counterfeiters), 1976
 * Λιβιδώ (Libido), 1978
 * Η παραλοϊσμένη (The Demented), 1980
 * Γενεαλογία (Genealogy), 1984
 * Το νερό (The Water), 2002
 * Ποιήματα 1984-2000 (Poems 1984-2000), 2003