User:Emmanuel Aligizakis (Manolis)

MANOLIS ALIGIZAKIS — BIOGRAPHY

Emmanuel Aligizakis, (Manolis) is a Cretan-Canadian poet and author. He’s the most prolific writer-poet of the Greek diaspora. At the age of eleven he transcribed the nearly 500 year old romantic poem Erotokritos, now released in a limited edition of 100 numbered copies and made available for collectors of such rare books at 5,000 dollars Canadian: the most expensive book of its kind to this day. He was recently appointed an honorary instructor and fellow of the International Arts Academy, and awarded a Master’s for the Arts in Literature. He is recognized for his ability to convey images and thoughts in a rich and evocative way that tugs at something deep within the reader. Born in the village of Kolibari on the island of Crete in 1947, he moved with his family at a young age to Thessaloniki and then to Athens, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Sciences from the Panteion University of Athens. After graduation, he served in the armed forces for two years and emigrated to Vancouver in 1973, where he worked as an iron worker, train laborer, taxi driver, and stock broker, and studied English Literature at Simon Fraser University. He has written three novels and numerous collections of poetry, which are steadily being released as published works. His articles, poems and short stories in both Greek and English have appeared in various magazines and newspapers in Canada, United States, Sweden, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Australia, Jordan, Serbia and Greece. His poetry has been translated into Spanish, Romanian, Swedish, German, Hungarian, Ukrainian, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish, Serbian, Russian, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, languages and has been published in book form or in magazines in various countries. He now lives in White Rock, where he spends his time writing, gardening, traveling, and heading Libros Libertad, an unorthodox and independent publishing company which he founded in 2006 with the mission of publishing literary books. His translation book “George Seferis-Collected Poems” was shortlisted for the Greek National Literary Awards the highest literary recognition of Greece. In September 2017 he was awarded the First Poetry Prize of the Mihai Eminescu International Poetry Festival, in Craiova, Romania.

AWARDS

~1st Poetry Prize, Academy of Mihai Eminescu, Craiova, Romania, 2017

~Distinguished Poet and Writer Award, City of Richmond, BC, 2014

~1st Poetry Prize, International Arts Academy for this translation of “Yannis Ritsos- Selected Poems”, 2014

~Winner of the Dr. Asha Bhargava Memorial Award, Writers International Network Canada, 2014

~“George Seferis-Collected Poems” translated by Manolis, shortlisted for the Greek National Literary Awards, translation category.

~1st Poetry Prize, International Arts Academy, for his translation of “George Seferis-Collected Poems”, 2013

~Master of the Arts in Literature, International Arts Academy, 2013

~1st Prize for poetry, 7th Volos poetry Competition, 2012

~Honorary instructor and fellow, International Arts Academy, 2012

~2nd Prize for short story, Interartia festival, 2012

~2nd Prize for Poetry, Interartia Festival, 2012

~2nd Prize for poetry, Interartia Festival, 2011

~3rd Prize for short stories, Interartia Festival, 2011

BOOKS by MANOLIS ALIGIZAKIS

THE MEDUSA GLANCE, poetry, Ekstasis Editions, spring 2017

THE SECOND ADVENT OF ZEUS, poetry, Ekstasis Editions, spring 2016

CHTHONIAN BODIES, paintings by Ken Kirkby and poems by Manolis Aligizakis, Libros Libertad, 2015

IMAGES OF ABSENCE, poetry, Ekstasis Editions, 2015

AUTUMN LEAVES, poetry, Ekstasis Editions, 2014

ÜBERMENSCH/ΥΠΕΡΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ, poetry, Ekstasis Editions, 2013

MYTHOGRAPHY, paintings and poems, Libros Libertad, 2012

NOSTOS AND ALGOS, poetry, Ekstasis Editions, 2012

VORTEX, poetry, Libros Libertad, 2011

THE CIRCLE, novel, Libros Libertad, 2011

VERNAL EQUINOX, poetry, Ekstasis Editions, 2011

OPERA BUFA, poetry, Libros Libertad, 2010

VESPERS, paintings and poems, Libros Libertad, 2010

TRIPTYCH, poetry, Ekstasis Editions, 2010

NUANCES, poetry, Ekstasis Editions, 2009

RENDITION, poetry, Libros Libertad, 2009

IMPULSES, poetry, Libros Libertad, 2009

TROGLODYTES, poetry, Libros Libertad, 2008

PETROS SPATHIS, novel, Libros Libertad, 2008

EL GRECO, poetry, Libros Libertad, 2007

PATH OF THORNS, poetry, Libros Libertad, 2006

FOOTPRINTS IN SANDSTONE, poetry, Authorhouse, Bloomington, Indiana, 2006

THE ORPHANS, poetry, Authorhouse, Bloomington, Indiana, 2005

TRANSLATIONS by MANOLIS

LIGHT IN THE PINENEEDLES, poetry by Karoly Fellinger, translated from English to Greek by Manolis Aligizakis, OSTRIA Publications, Athens, Greece, 2017

KARYOTAKIS--POLYDOURI, The Tragic Love Story, poetry translated by Manolis Aligizakis, Libros Libertad, 2016

HOURS OF THE STARS, poetry by Dimitris Liantinis, translated by Manolis Aligizakis, Libros Libertad, 2015

HEAR ME OUT, short stories, by Tzoutzi Mantzourani, translated by Manolis Aligizakis, Libros Libertad, 2015

CARESSING MYTHS, poetry by Dina Georgantopoulos, translated by Manolis Aligizakis, Libros libertad, 2015

IDOLATERS, a novel by Joanna Frangia, translated by Manolis Aligizakis, Libros Libertad, 2014

TASOS LIVADITIS-SELECTED POEMS, translated by Manolis Aligizakis, Libros Libertad, 2014

YANNIS RITSOS-SELECTED POEMS, translated by Manolis Aligizakis, Ekstasis Editions, 2013

CLOE AND ALEXANDRA-SELECTED POEMS, translated by Manolis Aligizakis, Libros Libertad, 2013

GEORGE SEFERIS-COLLECTED POEMS, translated by Manolis Aligizakis, Libros Libertad, 2012

YANNIS RITSOS-POEMS, translated by Manolis Aligizakis, Libros Libertad, 2010

CONSTANTINE P CAVAFY-POEMS, translated by Manolis Aligizakis, Libros Libertad, 2008

CAVAFY-SELECTED POEMS, translated by Manolis Aligizakis, Ekstasis Editions, 2011

BOOKS in OTHER LANGUAGES

THORNS OF THE ROSE, (Romanian), poetry by Manolis Aligizakis, translated in Romanian by Tatjana Betoska, Editura Europa, Craiova, Romania, 2017.

THE PRISONER, (Greek, PETROS SPATHIS in English) novel, OSTRIA Publications, Athens, Greece, 2017

BLUE IN THE WINDOW (Greek), poetry, OSTRIA Publications, Athens, Greece, 2017

FOGOLY, (Hungarian) novel by Manolis, translated in Hungarian by Karoly Csiby, Parnassus Publications, Bratislava, Hungary, 2017

SECOND ADVENT OF ZEUS, Greek, ENEKEN Publications, Thessaloniki, Greece, spring 2017

FUILLES D’AUTOMNE, poetry by Manolis Aligizakis, translated into French by Karoly Sandor Pallai, Editions Du Cygne, Paris, 2017

NABORI SEĆANJA, (Serbian) poetry by Manolis Aligizakis, translated into Serbian by Jolanka Kovacs, Zrenjanin, Serbia, 2016

FRUNZE DE TOAMNA, Poetry by Manolis, translated by Lucia Gorea, AB-ART, Romania, 2016

MEMORIES, (Greek), poetry, Fildisi Edigions, Athens, Greece, 2016

SONGS OF THE ABSURD, (Greek), poetry, ENEKEN, Salonika, Greece, 2015

IMAGES OF ABSENCE, (Greek) poetry, Sexpirikon, Salonika, Greece, 2015

OSZI FALEVELEK, (Hungarian), poetry by Manolis Aligizakis, translated into Hungarian by Karoly Csiby, Gyp, Hungary, 2015

SVEST, (Serbian), poetry by Manolis Aligizakis, translated into Serbian by Jolanka Kovacs, Serbia, 2015

ESZMELET, (Hungarian), poetry by Manolis Aligizakis, translated into Hungarian by Karoly Csiby, AB-ART, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2014

HIERODULES, (Greek), poetry, Sexpirikon, Salonika, Greece, 2014

YPERANTHROPOS, (Greek), poetry, ENEKEN, Salonika, Greece, 2014

ÜBERMENSCH (German), poetry by Manolis Aligizakis, translated into German by Eniko Thiele Csekei, WINDROSE, Austria, 2014

NOSTOS SI ALGOS, (Romanian) poetry by Manolis Aligizakis, translated into Romanian by Lucia Gorea, DELLART, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2013

TOLMIRES ANATASEIS, (Greek) poetry, GAVRIILIDIS EDITIONS, Athens, Greece, 2013

FYLLOROES, (Greek) poetry, ENEKEN PUBLICATIONS, Salonika, Greece, 2013

EARINI ISIMERIA, (Greek) poetry, ENEKEN PUBLICATIONS, Salonika, Greece, 2011

STRATIS ROUKOUNAS, (Greek) novel, MAVRIDIS EDITIONS, Athens, Greece, 1981

LONGHAND BOOKS

EROTOKRITOS, by Vitsentzos Kornaros, (rare book-collectible), transcribed by Manolis Aligizakis, Libros Libertad, 2015

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