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Born in Crete to a Lesvos family of soap manufacturers. He studied law in the University of Athens and, in 1940, he served as an army lieutenant on the Albanian front during the Greek-Italian war. He first published his poetry in 1935 in "Nea Grammata", a literary magazine, which brought to Greece works from the European contemporary literary scene and became the intellectual medium of the 30's generation...
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Kostis Palamas (1859-1943) |
| He was born in city of Patra and his formative years coincided with the explosion of romanticism in Greece. He published his first poems in 1886 and he became the central figure of the Greek literary scene for the rest of his life. |
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Yiannis Ritsos (1909-1991) |
| He was born in Monemvasia and his childhood was marked by dramatic family conditions, bankruptcy, illness, deaths, which were probably the reason for his love of everyday life and his penetrative vision for love. |
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Georgios Seferis (1900-1971) |
| The Nobelist poet was born in Smirni. His father, a University professor, is considered the best translator of Lord Byron’s poetry. He finished high school in Athens and then continued his studies in law and literature in Paris. |
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Angelos Sikelianos (1884-1951) |
| He was born in Lefkada and the institutional form of education never appealed to him. He started studies in law, which he never completed, and he dedicated himself to poetry. |
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Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957) |
| One of the greatest writers of the modern era, he appeared in the literary scene in the beginning of the 20th century. His work is varied: novels, poetry, drama, tragedies, philosophical essays, travel impressions, translations of Homer, Dante and Goethe. |
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Konstantinos Kavafis (1862-1933) |
| One of the best poets, the son of a wealthy businessman, he was born in Alexandria where he lived most of his life. He created a different kind of poetry by breaking away from all language, subject and verse conventionalisms and by introducing a new kind of brevity in expression. |
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Vasilis Vasilikos (1934) |
| The novelist Vasilikos gained international fame when his novel "Z" became a successful film, directed by Costas Gavras. Born in Kavala, the son of a member of the Greek parliament, he studied law at the University of Thessaloniki. During the years of dictatorship in Greece, he lived in Europe as a political refugee. |
