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The loss of the poet, lyricist and prose writer Manou Eleftheriou at the age of 80 years caused a pan-Hellenic emotion since he was one of the most important personages of the country and the society, illuminating thought and expression. The political and intellectual world has expressed sorrow for the great loss, while Manos Eleftherios leaves behind a huge work, but also a void that will require effort and inspiration from the enlightened Greeks to cover themselves.
who had a lot to say, and that his latest "confession" was recorded in THEMA 104.6 and in the "Personally" broadcast of Nikos Thrasyvoulos. A show that protothema.gr brings back to the news so that the world can hear and reflect on the words of the great Manos Eleftherios, with his immense work and his always fair, and above all insightful, look through the sensitivity of his work. an art
In one of his last interviews, Manos Eleftherios was on the radio platform and talked about his many years of career, songs and poetry
Listen below what he confessed to Nikos Thrasyvoulos:
"Farewell" to the political world p "Manos Eleftherios belongs, for many years, to the choreography of our great spiritual people, for whom death is the pbadage in the eternity that is legitimately attributed. (19659004) Olga Kefalogiannis, first Member of Parliament for Athens, talks about her message on the important social action of the Republic of Cyprus, the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, in his speech on the death of Manos Eleftherios. of the poet and writer
"Manos Eleftherios was a great poet, literary, lyricist and writer, as well as an active citizen with sensitivities and an important social action
The loss for Greek culture is great, but the work "
" O Manos Eleftheriou for those who did not know him at the time were numerous, too many: the lyrics – thousands of poems, short stories, novels, radio, a sweet presence and modest.
The rest of us, those who knew him from the songs he wrote from his books on the radio, were also recipients of his wisdom From the end of the 1960s, Manos Eleftheriou never stopped shaping the sound and poetics of modern Greece – in his own way but modest but influential, without debate, always tied to the tradition of which he never stopped drawing, a tradition that brought her of his youth in Syros and who has never ceased to renew himself. It's not easy to adapt one's offer to words, perhaps because it's indescribable: it could not be otherwise for a man who, with his writings and his words, you made familiar.
Phofi Gennimatas, President of the Movement of Change, says he honored culture and Greece
"The train leaves at eight o'clock Movement of change farewell to Manos Eleftherios." The great writer, the poet , the Democrat
A man of wit has seen his verses making songs of all the leading composers and come to the lips of all the Greeks.They sang and sang.His work is awesome, he honored the culture and Greece. "
The Mayor of Athens George Kaminis
" People with a job like that left by Manos Eleftheriou they do not die.They will be read and will always be sung because the power of the words and emotions that emerge from the work of Manos Eleftherios gives a distinct substance to the great concepts and ideas that he has embraced throughout his life.Today, however, we also said goodbye to a partnership A man who, for 22 years until the last hour, honored "Athens 984" and shared with his listeners his thoughts. Mano, thanks. "
Published on Facebook for Manos Eleftherios made by Evangelos Venizelos
" If a word can give the feeling that Manos Eleftherios has always left is the sweetest word. Sweet, cultivated, frank in his comments, generous in his behavior and his qualities. With the comfort that his privileged relationship with the Greek language gave him, he gradually moved into almost every area of written discourse, first taking what was a poet altogether. Manos Eleftherios has succeeded in showing that the scientist can be both popular and vice versa, without the convenience of literary populism. "
Andreas Loverdos, Farewell to" Master "Manos Eleftherios, Patroness of Art and Life
" Manos Eleftheriou wrote for those who "had immortals with bills " Without perhaps knowing that his own man has made the same immortal in the collective memory of successive generations. With honor and emotion, we bid farewell to Master Manos Eleftherios, patron of Art and Life, fighter of the Republic and fanatical opponent of freedom, wherever he comes from. "
Life and its great work Manos Eleftheriou
The great poet, lyricist and Greek writer Manos Eleftheriou left life at the age of 80, Sunday at the 39th. dawn He recently had a serious health problem.He would have had last Thursday an operation in the lungs and died of a heart attack today at dawn.
Manos Eleftheriou has written poetry books, short stories, a novel, two novels and more than 400 songs, and at the same time worked as a columnist, publisher, illustrator and radio producer
He was born and raised in Ermoupolis of Syros, his father was a navy, and at the age of 14 he came with his family from Syros to Athens and during the first seven years he lived in Halandri and in 1960 they moved to Neo Psychiko. 1955, he met Angelos Terzakis, who invited him to take clbades at the National Theater Theater School as an auditor. In 1956 it was written in the section
of the Stavrakos School Theater with professors Christos Vachliotis, Giorgos Theodosiadis and Grigoris Grigoriou
In 1960 in Ioannina where he was discovered to perform his military service he began to write theatrical works and poems. In 1962, at the age of 24, he published his first poetic collection, titled Owner, with his own money but with no expected success. At the same time, Ioannina writes the first words, among which "The train leaves at 8 o'clock", which Mikis Theodorakis then turned.
In October 1963, he began working at Reader's Digest, where he remained for sixteen years. Meanwhile, his first two short stories, The Directorate (1964) and The Mbadacre (1965), were published, with great criticism, in 1965 presented in Greek discography
Leonti as well as Mikis Theodorakis (1967 ) with whom the collaboration was interrupted because of the dictatorship. These songs were published in Paris in 1970. He collaborates with the municipality of Moutsis (St. George, 1971) and with Yannis Markopoulos on the Theta album, whose recording begins in November 1973, interrupted by the events of the Polytechnic School and finally released in 1974 with the Transfiguration
the song "The Little Words" in the music of Yannis Markopoulos.
From time to time he has collaborated with almost all Greek composers such as composer Stavros Kougioumtzis and singer Giorgos Dalaras as well as with Thanasis Gaifillias on endless journey (1975), Manos Hadjidakis, Yannis Spanos, Giorgos Zampetas, Stamatis Kraounakis, Loukianos Kilaidonis, Giorgos Chatzinasios, Antonis Vardis and many others. At the same time, he writes and illustrates children's stories and deals with the publication of albums on Syros: Etymogyros Syros, Theater of Ermoupolis, etc.
See the following video about what he said about his collaboration with George Dalaras: [19659036] Manos Eleftherios for Giorgos Dalaras “/>