Pantelis Boukalas was born in Lessini, Missolonghi, in 1957. He graduated from the Faculty of Dentistry of the University of Athens. Between 1987 and 1990 he was a book critic for the newspaper I Proti. From December 1990 and for the next twenty years he was editor of a weekly page on books for the daily newspaper Kathimerini, for which he also writes on a daily basis. He is a proofreader and editor of publications. He was a permanent contributor of the magazines O Politis and O Dekapenthimeros Politis. His articles and translations have also been published in the magazines I Lexi, To Dendro, Neo Epipedo, Technopaignio, Galera, Poetiki, The Books’ Journal, and in newspaper I Epochi. He has published the poetry books Algorhythm, The Excursion of Grace, The Panther Inside, Baneful Tokens, The Seer, Whenever the Plane Tree, Verbs (2010 State Poetry Award) and My Silent Apple Tree, as well as the play Virgin Mary’s Cheek: Autobiographic Assumption about Georgios Karaiskakis. He has also published a volume of book reviews titled Perhaps – Milestones of the Greek and Foreign Art of Speech, two volumes titled Hypotheses –whose excerpts have also been published in Sunday edition of Kathimerini– and the first four volumes of the series Ready to write… Essays on Folk Songs: 1. When Verbs Turn Into Names: “I Love”/Lover and the Vigour of Poetry in Folk Songs, 2017 State Essay Award; 2. The Blood of Love: Lust and Murder in Folk Poetry; 3. I Kissed Red Lips: The Journey of Kiss and Love as an Exaggeration; 4. (Love and Nation: Tribes, Religions and the Folk Poetry of Love. Part I: Greeks, Vlachs, Black, Arvanites, Turks. He has translated Bion the Smyrnean’s Epitaph of Adonis, the poems of the volume Epitaph – Ancient Greek Funerary Epigrams and Symposiastic Epigrams of Anthologia Palatina. He has also translated into modern Greek The Acharnians (National Theatre, 2005), Agamemnon (Regional and Municipal Theatre of Agrinio, 2005), The Trojan Women (Theatre of Neos Kosmos, 2010), Euripides’ Cyclops and Theocritus’ idyll of the same title (Athens Epidaurus Festival, 2017), Thesmophoriazusae (Athens Epidaurus Festival, 2018), Iphigenia in Aulis (National Theatre of Northern Greece, 2019) and Helen (National Theatre of Northern Greece, 2021). // Last update of the biography: September 2022.