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Nikos Engonopoulos – The Greek Surrealist Who United Dream and Greekness

Aris C.
On October 21, 1907, Nikos Engonopoulos was born in Athens — a painter, poet, and stage designer who became the leading figure of surrealism in Greece. Among ancient heroes, Byzantine saints, and dreamlike figures, Engonopoulos created an artistic world where paradox coexists with Greek light,...
Myths

A Nobel Prize awarded Greek poet

Kostas
George Seferis is one of the most important Greek poets. Seferis received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963. His real name was Georgios Seferiades. He was born on 13 March 1900 in  Smyrna, Asia Minor. He attended school in Smyrna and finished his studies at the Gymnasium...
Myths

The versatile architect of the “Generation of the 1930s” who remodeled the most historic Athenian landscape

Kostas
Dimitris Pikionis was one of the most important artistic figures of the first half of the 20th century in Greece, leaving his mark in Athens, as an architect, a painter, a philosopher, a poet and an academic professor. He is mostly known for the design...
Myths

Τhe main expressionist of modern lyric poetry

Kostas
Kostas Karyotakis, one of the greatest Greek poets and prose writers, is considered to be the main expressionist of modern lyric poetry, with his works having being translated into more than thirty languages. His poetry is part of Greek and international education, when hundreds of...

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