[1] Ganas was born on 17 January 1944 in Tsamantas, a mountain village in Epirus near the Greek-Albanian border.
His poems have been set to music by renowned Greek composers including Mikis Theodorakis, Nikos Xydakis and Dimitris Papadimitriou.
[1][2] Singers who have sung his texts include Vassilis Lekkas, George Dalaras, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Glykeria and Natasa Theodoridou.
His poetry collections have been translated into Albanian, French, German and Italian.
In 1994 he received the Second State Poetry Prize for his work ‘Paralogi’ and in 2011 the Academy of Athens honoured him with the Poetry Prize for his entire oeuvre.