birth_place nationality birth_date period article_title name occupation
messene , greece greek 1951 1968 & ndash ; giorgos markopoulos
 giorgos markopoulos poet
giorgos markopoulos

giorgos markopoulos -lrb- ; born 1951 -rrb- is a greek poet .
he read economics and statistics at the university of piraeus -lrb- then higher school for industrial studies -rrb- .
he belongs to the so-called genia tou 70 , which is a literary term referring to greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s , especially towards the end of the greek military junta of 1967-1974 and at the first years of the metapolitefsi .
he was awarded the state prize for poetry in 1999 for his collection , '' Μη σκεπάζεις το ποτάμι '' , which was also nominated for the european union prize in 2000 .
his work has been translated into english , french , italian and polish .
