Manolis Pratikakis

{{short description|Greek poet (born 1943)}}

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| birth_date = 1943

| birth_place=Myrtos, Ierapetra, Greece

| nationality=Greek

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| occupation =poet

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| period =1974–present

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Manolis Pratikakis ({{Langx|el|Μανόλης Πρατικάκης}}; born 1943) is a Greek poet. He read Medicine at the University of Athens and he is a practicing neurologist and psychiatrist. His first collection of poems was published in 1974; he belongs to the so-called Genia tou 70, which is a literary term referring to Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and at the first years of the Metapolitefsi. For his collection of poems Το νερό, in 2003, he received the Greek National Book Award.[http://www.dedalus.gr/gr/author.asp?id=180 ΤΡΑΙΝΟ (Συγγραφείς - Μέλη)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050419150142/http://www.dedalus.gr/gr/author.asp?id=180 |date=2005-04-19 }}