Life

She received grants from the Ford Foundation in 1972 and 1975.
She studied at the International Writing Program

International Writing Program

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 at the University of Iowa

University of Iowa

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She was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer in the United States in 1980 to 1981.
She taught at Harvard University

Harvard University

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, University of Utah

University of Utah

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, and San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University

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She won the Greek National Prize for Poetry in 1985.
She was a panelist at the Prague Writers' Festival in 2004 and 2008.

Works

• Le Grand guide de la Grèce, Translated Dominique Saran, Gallimard, 1996, ISBN 9782070714209
• Enantios erotas, Translated Ingemar Rhedin, Axion edition, 2005, ISBN 9789197355636
• Les ruses d'Ulysse, Inventaire, 2004, ISBN 9782910490614
• Entre ciel et terre, Eugène Van Itterbeek, Editions Les Sept Dormants, 1997, ISBN 9789739280402
• Když končí den, i v těle se stmívá, Festival spisovatelů Praha, 2008, ISBN 9788086173153
• Beings and things on their own, tr. K. Anghelaki-Rooke & J. Willcox (1986).

Works in English

• "The Nightmares of Transposition"; "It's Clear from Other Poems"; "Soul Skating", Genesis

• Translating Into Love Life's End, Shortstring Press, 2004, ISBN 9781899549962
• The Scattered Papers of Penelope: New and Selected Poems, Graywolf Press, 2009, ISBN 9781555975197

External links

• ΠΟΙΕΝ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΑΤΤΕΙΝ - to create and to do
• "The Poetess Katerina Anghelaki Rooke", Hatto Fischer
• http://www.hau.gr/?i=culture.en.past_event.73