Vas­silis Ama­na­tidis was born in Edessa, north­ern Greece, in 1970. He was raised in Thes­sa­loni­ki, where he now lives. He stud­ied His­to­ry and Archae­ol­o­gy at the Aris­to­tle Uni­ver­si­ty of Thes­sa­loni­ki (Mas­ters and PhD in Art His­to­ry) and worked as an art cura­tor at the Thes­sa­loni­ki Cen­tre of Con­tem­po­rary Art. He is cur­rent­ly a teacher of lit­er­a­ture and a trans­la­tor. He has pub­lished five poet­ry col­lec­tions:Dor­mi­to­ry: Nine noc­tur­nal para­bles (1999), House of ice (2001), Thir­tythree (2003), Sum­mer indoors + six proofs of capa­bil­i­ty (2005), 4‑D: Four-Dimen­sion­al Poems (2006). He has also pub­lished two col­lec­tions of short-sto­ries: Don’t eat me(Kas­tan­i­o­tis, Athens 2005) and Charybdi’s Dog (Kas­tan­i­o­tis, 2008).

His the­atri­cal plays The wash­basin (2007) and Blom! (2008) were staged in Thes­sa­loni­ki. His poems and short-sto­ries have been trans­lat­ed in five lan­guages (Eng­lish, French, Ital­ian, Russ­ian, Ser­bian and Per­sian), and have been includ­ed in antholo­gies, cat­a­logues and lit­er­ary jour­nals in Amer­i­ca, Cana­da, Eng­land, Swe­den, Italy and Rus­sia. He has per­formed in sev­er­al poet­ry read­ings at inter­na­tion­al fes­ti­vals such as the third Stock­holm Poet­ry Fes­ti­val and in the 53rd Venice Biennale.

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