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. Bilingua