title: Kostas Papageorgiou
text: # Kostas Papageorgiou
  
  Kostas Papageorgiou (Greek: Κώστας Παπαγεωργίου; 1945 – 3 May 2021 in Athens) was an acclaimed Greek poet and critic.
  
  He read Law and Philology and worked as a lawyer from 1972 to 1978. Since then, he is involved only in literature-related employment.
  
  Papageorgiou died at the age of 76, on 3 May 2021.
  
  Through the years he has contributed to almost all the major Greek literary periodicals He has published reviews in newspapers, such Eleftherotypia and he used to publish a periodical titled Γράμματα και Τέχνες (Letters and Arts). Since 1982, he has been working for the Greek National Radio as a consultant in literary matters, and producer for cultural broadcastings.
  
  ## Selected works
  
  ### Poetry
  
  * Ποιήματα (Poems), 1966
  * Συλλογή (Collection), 1970
  * Το οικογενειακό δέντρο (The family tree), 1978
  * Το σκοτωμένο αίμα (Dead blood), 1982
  * Ποιήματα (1972-2000) (Poems 1972-2000), 2004
  
  ### Prose
  
  * Των Αγίων Πάντων (All Saints), 1992
  * Άννα, τώρα κοιμήσου (Sleep now, Anna), 1995
  * Αντί σιωπής (Instead of silence), 2003
  
  ### Essays
  
  * Η γενιά του '70 (Ιστορία, ποιητικές διαδρομές) (The Generation of the 1970s. History, poetic pathways), 1989
  * Τα άδεια γήπεδα (The empty pitches), 1994
  