Nicholas Koutsodontis was born in 1987 in Athens. He studied Sociology at the Panteion University of Social and Political Studies and has published two collections of poetry: Decalcomania (Edypois Editions, 2017) and As long as you don't bring anyone home (Thraka Editions, 2021). His first book was nominated for the Anagnostis (The Reader) Award in 2018, while in the same year he won the first prize in the Panhellenic Poetry Competition George N. Carter of the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation. In 2021, he participated in the literary residency programme "Ulysses’ shelter”, where he represented Greece and spent 3 weeks in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His poems from this period are included in his next poetry collection, "Maybe you will go abroad", which will be published next May by Thraka Editions. He has translated works by participating authors in the 'Ulysses' Shelter’ programme, which were included in the volume Somewhere in the Middle (Thraka, 2022), and on behalf of the international Panthessalian Poetry Festival, as well as the Thraca magazine, he has also translated poems by many guest poets (Ivan Shopov, Marko Pogačar, Metin Cengiz, Juliana Velichkovska, Tom Veber, Vtomirka Vita Trebovac, Uroš Prah, Mitko Gogov, etc,), while his own poems have been translated into German (
https://signaturen-magazin.de/edition...), English, Slovenian(
http://vrabecanarhist.eu/nikolas-kout...), Croatian, Italian (
https://poesiainverso.com/2022/07/25/...) and Albanian. Last but not least, he was the main anthologist and editor of the first Anthology of Greek Queer Poetry (Thraka editions, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, 2023).
