The award-winning British translator taught modern Greek language and literature, and published articles about Solomos, Karyotakis
The award-winning translator and distinguished Hellenist passed away Peter Mackridge.
Mackridge was born in England in 1946. He studied at St. Johns College, University of Oxford, where studied modern Greek and French literature.
With a scholarship from Queens College of the same university lived the years 1969-1972 in Athens, where he did research for his doctoral dissertation, which was the subject of the Greek novel of the interwar period.
From 1973 to 1980 it was Lecturer in Modern Greek Philology at Kings College from the University of London, while from 1981 until his retirement in 2004, he taught at the University of Oxford, where he was also a partner of St. Cross College.
All these years he was engaged in the teaching of modern Greek language and literature, and published articles about Solomos, Karyotakisthe pre-war and post-war Greek novel and the Pontic dialect.
He also edited the novels “Eroica” and “Stou Hadjifrangou” by Kosmas Politis in the series “New Greek Library” of Hermes publications, initially, and the Bookstore of Hestia afterwards.
He had traveled to many parts of Greece, which he considered his second home.
