Nana Isaia

Nana Isaia or Issaia (Greek: Νανά Ησαΐα) (1934–2003) was a Greek poet, painter and translator. Her poetry was translated into English, Russian and Italian.[1] She translated work by Susan Sontag, Sylvia Plath, T. S. Eliot, Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann into Greek.[2]

Life

Nana Isaia was born in Athens in 1934.[3] After high school she studied at a London secretarial school for a year, before returning to work as secretary to the Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis. In 1960 she studied for four years at the Vakalo College of Art and Design.[4]

Isaia then lived on the island of Hydra for four years,[4] where she came to know Leonard Cohen.[5] In 1974 she had a one-person show of her paintings.[4]

She died on 22 January 2003.[6]

Works

  • Poemata [Poems]. 1969.
  • Persona. 1972.
  • Ena vlemma [A Glance]. 1974.
  • Meres kai nychtes choris semasia [Days and Nights Without Significance]. 1977.
  • e Alike ste chora ton thavmaton [Alice in Wonderland]. 1977
  • Morphe [Form]. 1980.
  • Sten taktike ton pathon [In the Tactic of Passion]. 1982.
  • Synaisthese lethes [Consciousness of Oblivion]. 1982.

References

  1. ^ Kolias, Helen Dendrinou (1991). "Nana Isaia". In Wilson, Katharina M. (ed.). An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. Taylor & Francis. pp. 585–86.
  2. ^ "Paseo / Nana Isaía". Semanal. 16 October 2022. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  3. ^ Anne Commire; Deborah Klezmer, eds. (2006). "Issaia, Nana (1934–)". Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages. Retrieved 1 March 2023 – via Encyclopedia.com.
  4. ^ a b c "Contributors Notes". Descant. 18: 99. 1977.
  5. ^ Posner, Michael (2020). Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years. Simon & Schuster. p. 265.
  6. ^ "Nana Isaia". The American College of Greece. December 2005. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.