Andreas Karavis is a non-existent Greek poet created by Canadian poet David Solway. On October 1999, Books in Canada published an article entitled "Modern Homer" about a supposedly newly discovered Greek poet Andreas Karavis, with an interview, a photograph, and an essay by David Solway. In the piece, Solway claimed that he had hunted the reclusive fisherman-poet for years until he had finally met him in 1991, and that he had begun to translate his poems in 1993. Solway has said that he had created Karavis as an "alter ego and heteronym" to gain new inspiration for his poetry.