Stratis Paschalis

Stratis Paschalis (Greek: Στρατής Πασχάλης) (b. Athens 1958) is a Greek poet, novelist and translator. He read Political Science at the Law School of the University of Athens. His first collection of poems was published in 1977 with the title Anaktoria from the publishing house Ikaros with the assistance of the poet Odysseas Elytis whose publisher this was. His "reach out" critical letter in 1976 to Elytis introducing himself and asking for help is within the documents and letters deposited within the archives at The American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Elytis has left most of his letters documents and partial manuscripts there until a certain timeframe. Paschalis has been awarded the Kostas and Eleni Ouranis Prize of the Academy of Athens (1994), the State Prize for Translation (1998) and the Poetry Prize for Poetry of the literary journal Diavazo (1999).The poetry of Paschalis is marked by a high degree of eclecticism in words and topic denominators.He is one of the few Greek poets who can write in the "blind field" of the English school of thought. [1]