Eleni Vakalo
Eleni Vakalo was a Greek poet, art critic and art historian.Biography
Eleni Vakalo, née Stavrinou, was born in 1921, in Constantinople, and in 1922 her parents moved to Athens. She studied archaeology at the University of Athens and art history at Sorbonne. In 1944 she married the painter Giorgos Vakalo.Awards
- First State Award for Poetry, 1991
- Essay Award of the Academy of Athens, 1997
- Honorary degree in history-archaeology from the University of Thessaloniki, 1998
- Honorary degree from the University of Derby, 2000
Poetry
- Theme and Variations, Athens, Icaros, 1945
- Recollections from a nightmarish city, Athens, 1948
- In the form of theorems, Athens, 1951
- The Forest, Athens, Karavia, 1954
- Mural, Athens, The Friends of Literature, 1956
- Age's diary, Athens, Diphros, 1958
- Description of the body, Athens, Diphros, 1959
- The Concept of blind people, Athens, 1962
- The Way of being in danger, Athens, 1966
- Genealogy/Γενεαλογία, The Rougemont Press, 1971
- Of the World, Athens, Kedros, 1978
- The foolishness of Ma Rodalina, Athens, Ypsilon, 1984
- Events and Stories of Ma Rodalina, Athens, 1990
- The Other Face of the Thing. Poetry 1954–1994, Athens, Nepheli, 1995
- Selected poems, Athens, Nepheli, 1997
Art theory
- Introduction to Topics of Painting, Athens, Athens School of Fine Arts, 1960
- 12 Lectures on Modern Art, Athens, "Hour", Centre of Art and Culture, 1973
- The Concept of Forms. Reading Art, Athens, "Hour", Centre of Art and Culture, 1979
- The Face of Post-War Art in Greece, Athens, Kedros, 1980–84
- From the Viewer's Side. Essays, Athens, Kedros, 1989
- Giorgos Vakalo. The charm of writing., Athens, "New Forms" Gallery, 1994
- Visual Arts Criticism , Athens, Kedros, 1996
