Spiros Vergos

Spiros Vergos was born in 1945 in Athens. After the establishment of the dictatorship in 1967, he was forced to leave Greece and spent several years in political exile.

In 1975, he returned to Athens as a journalist, a muse he has never completely deserted even after joining the diplomatic service in the early eighties.

His first collection of poems Anonymities was published in 1972, followed by Testimony of Death and Roots in Time . In the Meantime , a collection of essays, appeared in 1990. Spiros Vergos worked for several years as a cultural attaché in Prague and Mexico, and currently lives in Prague.