The Deputy Ministry of Culture expresses its deepest sorrow for the death of one of the most important poets of Cyprus, Pitsa Galazi.
Pitsa Galazi was born in Limassol in 1940. After graduating from the Athenaideios Gymnasium in Limassol in 1959, she went to Athens where she studied Political and Social Sciences at the Panteion School, while at the same school she took courses in Law and Public Relations. Between 1966 and 1969 he worked at the Cyprus Radio Foundation where he was responsible for various cultural programmes.
Later he worked as a journalist. Since 1970 she settled permanently in her hometown. Between 1971 and 1973, she was a member of the Advisory Committee for Writing of the Educational Service of the Ministry of Education. She was a member of the National Society of Greek Writers of Cyprus, as well as of similar organizations in Greece.
She appeared in Cypriot letters while she was still a high school student. As a student in Athens, she published her first collection of poems there entitled Moments of Adolescence (Athens, 1963), inspired by the Liberation Struggle of EOKA 1955-59. Other poetry collections followed: In the margins of the times (Athens, 1968), Asperi Politia (Athens, 1969), Trees and Sea (Athens, 1969), Mosaic (Athens, 1973), The Sister of Alexandros (Athens, 1973), Hypnopaedia (Athens, 1978), Simatoroi (Athens, 1984), The Birds of Eustolius and the Enclave (Athens, 1997), Epsilon of Helen (Athens, 1998), Odos Aimilios Chourmouziou (Athens, 2005), The Voice (2017). She has also written essays and studies.
Her works Trees and Sea (1969), Scars (1984) and The Voice (2017) were awarded the State Poetry Prize.
In 1999 she was awarded the Lambrou Porphyra Prize of the Academy of Athens.
Pitsas Galazi's collaborations are published in the main Cypriot and Greek literary magazines. Her poetry has been translated into foreign languages and included in several anthologies.
The loss of Pitsas Galazi leaves an unfulfilled void in the literature and intellectual life of Cyprus.
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