Antonis Fostieris, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Antonis Fostieris

Greek poet

Date of Birth: 16-May-1953

Place of Birth: Athens, Attica Region, Greece

Profession: writer, poet, author

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Andonis Fostieris (Greek: ??t???? F?st?????; born 1953) is a Greek poet.
He studied Law at the University of Athens and History of Law at Sorbonne, Paris.
Since 1981, he is co-editor and director of the literary periodical ? ????. Fostieris is one of the eminent poets of the so-called Generation of the Seventies Genia tou 70, which is a literary term referring to Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and at the first years of the Metapolitefsi.
Fostieris has been considerably translated; that includes translation into English by Kimon Friar (1984), the acclaimed translator and scholar for his Modern Greek literature translations.