Stratis Haviaras

Stratis Haviaras (1935-2020) was curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University and founding editor of Erato and Harvard Review. A bilingual author of literary works in English and Greek, he is known in the US for his novels, When the Tree Sings (shortlisted for the National Book Award) and The Heroic Age. His most recent works are Axna, a novel (Kedros, 2014), and a translation of The Canon by C.P. Kavafy (CHS, Harvard University Press, 2007).