"Maria Centre-Agathopoulou"

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Maria Centre-Agathopoulou (Thessaloniki, 1930) is a Greek poet, prose and essayist. Grammatologically, it belongs to the poets of the Second Postwar Generation. Her works have been awarded and translated into many languages.

Biographical data
Maria Centre-Agathopoulou was born in Thessaloniki, where she finished her circular studies, to parents of Asia Minor in 1930. In the letters she appeared for the first time in 1958 with her emmetric poem "Cyprus-Truth" in the journal of Greek Northern Greece, while three years later in 1961, she published her first poetry collection Soul and art. In her first steps the poet will receive great influences from Chrysanthe Zitsia (1902–1995),1 while later, a catalyst role in the formation of her poetic "I" will be played by Zoe Karelli (1901–1998), George Themelis (1900–1976), Nikos Karousos (1926–1990) and George Sarantaris (1908–1941). The Soul and Art collection was followed by thirteen others, with last the Sedonia of the wake (2006). Poems of the Center-Agathopoulou were published in a large number of Greek magazines (New Course, Diagonal, Tram, Enteminium, New Estia, Reading etc.), some of which were included in foreign-language anthologies and translated into seven languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Polish, Romanian and Serbian).

The review distinguishes two phases in the creative course of Maria Centre-Agathopoulou, one first, in which it traces the existential structures of human nature (65–1975), and one second, starting with the mural collection The aftermath , in which the tones lower and appear in its poems images and snapshots of everyday life. 3

The poetry of Maria Centre-Agathopoulou center both issues existentially and erotically; the old age, familiar and her own, and the eventual death, the shortness of life, extreme situations of human life, such as absolute loneliness, are involved with gender relations, archetypes of their names, the alginal background of love memory, with its writing making a move pendulum with its two ends in love and death. 2 Stable patterns will return to her poems, delimiting that area that occupied her most, with more frequent patterns: home, tree, stone and water.

Her prose work will be a novel and five collections of short stories. Starting with the autobiographical settlement of Railways (1998), in which the poet's childhood and teenage years are represented in the village of Railways, Thessaloniki (her father was a driver) from Mesopolo to post-war years, four collections of short stories will follow, in which the author's experiences will play again, in response to the imperatives of experiential prose that the writers of Thessaloniki have developed.

In 1964 he was awarded the "Award of the Municipality of Thessaloniki" for the joke of Akom