Nikos Katsalidas (, ; born 1949 in Ano Lesinitsa) is a Greek writer and translator.
Biography
Education and professional career Katsalidas was born in 1949 in the village of Ano Lesinitsa in the Sarandë region of Albania to a Greek family. His father was the folklorist Grigoris Katsalidas, who faced persecution during the communist period. He completed his secondary education in Berat, where he met Ismail Kadare, with whom he formed a friendship, and subsequently studied philology at the University of Tirana. He worked as a professor of philology and after the fall of the communist regime, served as a literary editor for publications of the Greek minority in Albania. He later settled permanently in Greece.
Literary presence Katsalidas is considered one of the most important and prolific writers of the Greek minority, with a body of work that includes poetry, essays and prose addressed to both Greek and Albanian audiences. He made his literary debut with poems written in Albanian, while in the following years he also wrote in the Greek language.Anteia Frantzi, Literature and National Consciousness of the Greek Minority in Northern Epirus, στο The Historical Review / La Revue Historique, Institute for Neohellenic Research, 2006, τόμος τρίτος, pages 212-213. His body of work includes thirty poetry collections, a novel and a collection of short stories..
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