Katerina
Anghelaki-Rooke was born in Athens, Greece. She studied
foreign languages and literature at the universities of Athens,
Nice (France) and Geneva (Switzerland), where she was graduated
in 1962. She has received Ford Foundation Grants (1972 and 1975),
was invited to the International Writing Program at the University
of Iowa, and was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer in the United
States (1980-1981), during which time she lectured on Modern
Greek Poetry and Nikos Kazantzakis at Harvard. She has subsequently
lectured on other dimensions of modern poetry and given public
reading of her poetry in English and in Greek in the United
States, Mexico, and Europe. She won the 1985 Greek National
Poetry Award for the Greek version of Beings and Things
on Their Own.
BOA
books by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke:
Being and Things on Their Own
