Komninos Zervos

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Name Komninos Zervos		Role Poet

Books Komninos by the kupful, Komninos

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Komninos Zervos (born 1950) is a Greek-Australian performance poet and teacher. He was born in Richmond, Melbourne.

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Life

Born in Melbourne in 1950, Komninos Zervos currently lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Komninos' poems are a playful combination of social commentary, autobiography and farce. He has performed poetry professionally in pubs, literary festivals, TV, radio, schools, streets, universities and prisons; published poetry in books, literary journals and anthologies; and authored animated and interactive multimedia poems for the internet. He is the recipient of numerous grants and

Awards

1991 Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Poetry Award for Komninos

1992 Australia Council/Ros Bower Community Artist of the Year.

1997 Prix Ars Electronica, Austria, .Net Award, Highly Commended.

2001 Electronic Literature Organisation Literature Award for poetry, Runner-up.

Articles on Komninos

Geoff Page's A Reader's Guide to Australian Poetry, UQP, 1995, pages 161 - 164.

William Wilde's Australian Poets and their Works: A reader's guide, Oxford, 1996, pages 140 - 141.

Wilde, Hooton and Andrews The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 2nd edition, Oxford,1994, page 439.

References

Komninos Zervos Wikipedia

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