Eleftheriou Manos: He gave his swan song shortly before his death – Society

A week before his departure, Manos Eleftherios released his latest novel, revealed by the 24-hour Radio publisher, Nontas Papageorgiou.

This book will be published by Metaichmios next November, while the publishing house will begin a series of events to commemorate the memory of the author

The political funeral of Manos Eleftherios have took place on Tuesday 24 July. while his body was moved to Bulgaria for cremation as he wished.

The "goodbye" of Metaichmios publications to the great Manos Eleftherios:

METAICHMIO bids farewell to his beloved friend, the great poet, lyricist and Prosecutor Mano Ele this rare and enlightened man who left us near dawn Sunday of a heart attack at the age of 80 years. The cultural capital of the country has been considerably poorer since the dawn of Sunday

The pernicious figure of Manos is no longer near us. He moved to other places that he loved so much through his writings. But his work will remain alive, just like our memories of him. We will remember his kindness, his kindness and morality, his Doric form, his modesty and his generosity, and we will preserve them as a precious thing for the rest of our lives. His slender humor, his teasing and illusions, his stories and anecdotes, from the most everyday to the most spiritual, his weekly visits to our offices in Hippocrates, will be missed. It's our only chance to know him and the cultural legacy he's leaving generously. Manos Eleftheriou was born in Ermoupolis of Syros on March 12, 1938.
At the age of 14, he moved from Syros to a family in 1967, in Halandri, to reside after a few years and for the rest of his life in Neo Psychiko.

In 1955, he meets Angelos Terzakis, a decisive meeting, because with his own advice, he will begin to attend as a listener's lessons in dramaturgy. School of the National Theater. The following year, he is at the theater department of Stavrakos School.

In 1960, he did his military service in Ioannina and two years later he published his first poetic collection entitled "Housing" with his own money. At the same time he will give us his first words, of which "The train leaves at 8", that Mikis Theodorakis turned later.

In October 1963 and for sixteen consecutive years he worked in "Reader's Digest". Meanwhile, his first two stories will be published. In 1964, he appeared in Greek discography where he collaborated with Christos Leonti and Mikis Theodorakis. Their collaboration will be interrupted because of the dictatorship, and these songs were first published in Paris in 1970. Since then, he will collaborate with the greatest Greek composers and performers, having written texts for more than 400 songs

. At the same time, he writes and illustrates children's stories and takes pictures on the main theme of his homeland, Syros. In the 1990s, he wrote and broadcast in the second program and in Athens 9.84. In 2004, he published his first novel entitled The Time of Chrysanthemums which was honored with the State Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2013, the Academy of Athens awarded him for his entire work
He left life on July 22, 2018.

The books of Manos Eleftherios, which Metaichhemos had the honor to publish, are:

• The Time of Chrysanthemums 2004 (novel): A great novel was loved by the public and critics. The company Evangelia Paraskevopoulou – his greatest theatrical glory Manos Eleftherios composes the last act of life of a city in his first novel, honored by the State Fiction Award in 2005.
• The woman who died twice 2006 (novel): backdated in December 1944 and on the occasion of the conviction of the actor Eleni Papadakis, Manos Eleftheriou draws a fantastic story about the games that plays the same time for those who had a badlash
• The melancholy of the motherland after the news of the eight 2007 (stories): 14 stories about the traps nostalgia, wear of time, sickness and the loneliness, love that fades into everyday life. (19659017), 2008 (novel): At what critical moment of our lives do our friends think of our certain salvation just as we imagine it will be realized?
• The Invisible Wolf 2010 (poetry): A great synthetic and rhythmic poem that tells the brief visit of the poet to Hades after his Angel
• The Old Man dancer 2010 (theatrical monologue): Salle d & A retirement home or nursing home. In this solitary man solitary monologue. This is the backdrop of the theatrical monologue set up by Manos Eleftherios
• Before the Sunset 2011 (novel): Manos Eleftheriou returns to the inspiring place of the theater and sets up an exciting gathering of actors and
• Black Eyes: Mark Vamvakaris and the Syrian Society in 1905-1920 2013 (study): A Journey to the First Fifteen Years of Mark Vamvakaris' Life in Syros
• The words and chronicles 1963-2013: The Songs 2013: The concert version of his verses, which featured important and younger composers and performed beloved singers
• 2016 (novel ): A novel with a protagonist an elderly writer who returns to his hometown and follows images, shadows, smells in search of drugs that need those who suffer from memories and loneliness
• Rhetoric 2018 (poetry) unpublished writings of comp [19659032] In addition to the above, Manos trusted us two other works: 1. the collective volume Hermoupolis which was published in the series "A city in literature", in which it flourishes texts of Greek and foreign writers on his birthplace, 2. the album Wrinkles of Greece travels to Greece from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as imagined by Haris Giakoumis to through 200 rare photographs accompanied by texts by Manos Eleftherios