zeitflechten

by Eleni Kefala, Peter Constantine (translator)

eine Sammlung zusammenhängender Gedichte, die Momente aus verschiedenen Epochen der Geschichte zusammenführt, Zeitgeflechte, die zu einem lebendigen Motivteppich verwoben sind. Eine Übung in den vielfältigen Dimensionen der Zeit und eine Hommage an die schwachen Stimmen der Geschichte

zeitflechten erhielt den Staatspreis für Lyrik in Zypern

104 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 15, 2025

About the author

A poet and academic from Cyprus. She has authored three poetry books, four monographs, an edited volume, and several refereed articles. She is a two-time winner of the State Poetry Prize in Cyprus for the books Time Stitches (2014) and Direct Orient (2025), and the recipient of the Academy of Athens G. Athanas Poetry Award for Direct Orient (2025), which was also shortlisted for the State Poetry Prize in Greece (2025). The English translation of Time Stitches by Peter Constantine (Deep Vellum 2022) won the Elizabeth Constantinides Prize of the Modern Greek Studies Association and was a New York Times Globetrotting Pick. She served on the jury of the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Her monograph The Conquered was awarded the 2022 Edmund Keeley Prize. Eleni was born in Athens, grew up in Cyprus, studied in Nicosia and Cambridge, and currently makes her home in Scotland, where she teaches Latin American and comparative literature at the University of St Andrews.