University of Oxford
D.Phil. International Relations
University of Oxford
M.Phil. International Relations
University of Bristol
B.Sc. Economics and Philosophy
A renowned poet and editor of the literary journal Poetics, Professor Vlavianos has published several collections of his own poetry, including Vacation in Reality (2009), which won the prestigious “Diavazo” Poetry Prize and Sonnets of Despair (2011). His latest poetic collection, Self-Portrait of Whiteness (2018), received the National Poetry Prize, the Poetry Prize of the Academy of Athens, the Critics’ Poetry Prize, and the Readers’ Poetry Prize. His acclaimed Hitler’s Secret Diary: Landsberg Prison, November 1923–December 1924 (2016), was translated into French, Dutch, and Bulgarian, receiving positive reviews in Monde Diplomatique. Additionally, his The History of Western Philosophy in 100 Haiku was translated into English and French.
Professor Vlavianos has also published numerous books with essays on poetry and philosophy and translated into Greek the works of well-known American and European poets, including Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, William Blake, John Ashbery, Zbigniew Herbert, Fernando Pessoa, E. E. Cummings, Michael Longley, Wallace Stevens, Adam Zagajewski, and Anne Carson. He has also translated T. S. Eliot’s The Four Quartets and The Waste Land. Recently, his translations of Louise Glück’s Virtuous and Faithful Night, Wild Iris and Winter Recipes from the Collective and The Triumph of Achilles were published to great critical acclaim. In addition, he has recently published a translation of a wide selection of Emily Dickinson’s poetry. For his contribution to promoting Italian literature and culture in Greece, the President of the Italian Republic bestowed upon him in 2005 the title of “Cavaliere,” while the Dante Society of Italy awarded him the “Dante Prize” for his publications on the Divine Comedy.