On March 11, 2023, Professor Gerasimos Zoras, vice-president of the Costis Palamas Foundation, received the Jean Moréas international poetry award. This institution is supported by the Poetry Office (Patras), the Region of Western Greece, the University of Patras, the University of Western Macedonia, and the Greek Library of London.
During a ceremony held in the Archaeological Museum of Patras, Mr Andreas Filias, Deputy Regional Governor of Western Greece, presented Professor Zoras with the award. The jury’s president, Professor Triantafyllos Kotopoulos, spoke about Professor Zoras’ contributions to the Greek letters and his research on Costis Palamas. Shortly afterwards, the awardee referred to the ongoing scholarly re-edition of our national poet’s Complete Works by the Costis Palamas Foundation. Based on the poet’s manuscripts kept at the Foundation, this massive project will span approximately fifty large volumes, the first fourteen of which have already been released and primarily include Palamas’ poetry output. The following volumes will contain the poet’s articles, vignettes, feuilletons, and correspondence. It is worth noting that Costis Palamas served as secretary general of the University of Athens for thirty years, i.e., from 1897 to 1928.
