Manolis Aligizakis

Manolis (Emmanuel Aligizakis) was born in the small village Kolibari west of Chania on the Greek island of Crete in 1947. At a young age his family moved first to Thessaloniki and then to Athens where he was educated, achieving a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Sciences at the Panteion University of Athens. He served in the armed forces for two years, and emigrated to Vancouver in 1973, where he worked in several different jobs over the years. He attended Simon Fraser University for a year, taking English Literature in a non-degree program. He has written three novels and a large number of collections of poetry, which are slowly appearing as published works. Various articles, poems and short stories in Greek as well as in English have appeared in various magazines and newspapers in Canada, United States, Australia and Greece. After working as an iron worker, train labourer, taxi driver and stock broker, he now lives in White Rock where he spends his time writing, gardening and traveling. In 2006 he founded Libros Libertad, an unorthodox and independent publishing company in Surrey, BC with the goal of publishing literary books.

Books by Manolis Aligizakis

Swamped

Selected Poems

Red in Black

Neo-Hellene Poets

The Quest

The Medusa Glance

The Second Advent of Zeus

Images of Absence

Autumn Leaves

Selected Poems

Ubermensch

Nostos and Algos

Cavafy

Vernal Equinox

Opera Bufa

Yannis Ritsos - Poems

Vespers

Triptych

Rendition

Nuances

Impulses

Constantine P. Cavafy

Troglodytes

Petros Spathis

El Greco

Path of Thorns