Birds In The Night

Stamatis Polenakis was born in Athens, Greece in 1970. He was trained as a cinema director in Athens and also studied Spanish culture and language at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has lived and worked in Spain and Ireland (Dublin). He is the author of seven poetry collections and a novel, and has also written theatrical works, four of which have been staged. In 2017 his collection The Roses of Mercedes was awarded the Greek National Prize for Poetry. Polenakis' poetry has been translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Slovenian.