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Vasilis Papageorgiou (Greek: Βασίλης Παπαγεωργίου, Thessaloniki, 1955) is a Greek-Swedish writer and translator. From 1975 to 2023 he lived in Sweden. He has translated books of numerous writers into Greek, such as W. G. Sebald, Willy Kyrklund, Eva Runefelt, Magnus William-Olsson [sv], Tomas Tranströmer (Collected poems, shortlisted for the Greek National translation prize 2005) and John Ashbery. He has translated into Swedish (with different colleagues) books of Odysseas Elytis, Thanasis Valtinos [el], Kenneth Koch, W. G. Sebald, John Ashbery, all the poems and fragments of Sappho (annotated edition) and an annotated collection with posthumous poems and prose of Konstantinos Kavafis. He has published essays, book reviews and literary texts in Greek, Swedish and British journals. He is a docent of comparative literature and professor of creative writing at Linnaeus University in Sweden. In 2015, he received the award "Swedish-Greek of the Year" by the Board for Cultural Exchange between Sweden and Greece.