Giannis Cassavetes was one of the founders of independent American cinema, the pioneer of self-financing and self-distribution of films in..

Manolis Anagnostakis is one of the leading poets of the first post-war generation, a political conscientious poet who was imprisoned..

Dimitris Mitropoulos was born in Athens on February 18, 1896 (by the old Julian calendar) and was from the village..

Georgios Stamatogiannopoulos was a professor of genetics and medicine at Washington University in Seattle, USA, and director of the Markey..

Angelos Sikelianos was one of the greatest poets and playwrights and he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Angelos Sikelianos..

Manos Hadjidakis was born on October 23, 1925, in Xanthi, a tobacco-growing town near the northern border of Greece. His..

Alexandros Papadiamantis is one of the greatest Greek novelist and is regarded as the father of modern Greek literature. He also..

Nikolaos Gyzis was born in the village of Sklavohori, in Tinos island on the 1st of March 1842, and died..

Nikiforos Vrettakos, is one among the greatest poets and prose writers of Greece. Vrettakos has won a number of prizes..