Orfeas Apergis

Born in Athens in 1974. He is a poet, essayist, translator, and performer. He has been publishing in literary journals and newspapers since 2006. He has translated various poets, from Byron to Muldoon to Denise Riley. In 2013, he was visiting poet at the University of Barcelona, and at King’s College, London. His work has been translated into English, Spanish, German, Swedish, French, Russian, and Bengali. In 2018 he wrote the play Ghosts, inspired by Ibsen, for the Athens Epidaurus Festival, and translated into English the version of Aristophanes’ Birds staged by Nikos Karathanos in New York (St Ann’s Warehouse). In 2020, he presented his work at the Contemporary Greek Poets’ seminar series of Harvard University. In 2023, he participated in the Archive of Desire, a festival on Cavafy’s poetry, as a guest of Columbia University, New York. His latest publications include Tyfland (poetry, 2023) and I Epitropi (The Committee, a novel, 2021), both from Nefeli Publications.