Athan D. Economou
Mr. Athanasios (Athan) Economou (b. 1959) comes from Greece. After eight years of intensive study in the social sciences and the humanities, he occupied the position of the librarian in his local public library. He read a lot, he learned a lot, and he traveled a lot (both physically and mentally).
His lifelong inquisitiveness rewarded him with valuable lessons for which he is mostly grateful. He never designed a "career"; he floated carefree in the great stream of Life that sooner or later empties into the Ocean.
His exquisite muse called on him at the age of nineteen, and ever since then, he has produced a prolific amount of texts. After such a substantial number of years, he realized that his vocation (not profession) was that of a poet.
Apart from his Greek poetic production and literary critiques, he has provided a considerable number of translations from English poetic texts.
W. Shakespeare's The Tempest, J. Milton's Paradise Lost, J. Donne's The Holy Sonnets, Lord Byron's Manfred, J. Keats' The Eve of St. Agnes, A. Lord Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott, and a rich anthology of English and American poems (in translation) are nowadays parading in Greek bookstores with exemplary artistry. Bilingual texts are in certain cases provided.
