Tag: Greece

Giorgos Chimonas

Giorgos Chimonas

Giorgos Chimonas (Kavala, March 17, 1938 – Paris, February 27, 2000) was a Greek prose writer, translator and psychiatrist who became known and distinguished in the field of Greek literature in the 1960s. Giorgos Himonas was born in Kavala in 1938 and grew up in Thessaloniki. There he studied medicine. He continued his studies in Paris, specializing in psychiatry and neurolinguistics. After completing his studies, he returned to Greece and lived in Athens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIkyuNmRSfw In Read more [...]
Periklis Sfyridis

Periklis Sfyridis

Periklis Sfyridis (born October 5, 1933, in Thessaloniki) is a contemporary Greek poet, prose writer, essayist, critic, and anthologist. His prose has been published in several languages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrodemyXb1U Periklis Sfyridis was born in 1933 in Thessaloniki, where he lives. He graduated from the American College "Anatolia" in 1952. He studied medicine at the University of Thessaloniki (as a student of the Military Medical School) and worked as a cardiologist Read more [...]
Vasos Ilias Vogiatzoglou

Vasos Ilias Vogiatzoglou

Vasos Vogiatzoglou, son of Elias, was born in 1935 in Nea Ionia, Attica. He is a pediatrician and member of the Doctors of the World organization, a researcher of the history and folk culture of the Greeks of Asia Minor, a poet, onomasticologist, and essayist. His parents were refugees from Sparta (Isparta) in Pisidia. He studied medicine at the University of Athens and specialized in pediatrics. She provides voluntary pediatric care for children in the women's prisons of Korydallos and Thebes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX8qAffxkz0 Vasos Read more [...]
Takis Sinopoulos

Takis Sinopoulos

Takis Sinopoulos was born in 1917 in the Peloponnese. He served as a military doctor in the Greek Civil War from 1946 to 1949; his experiences of fratricide and excessive violence had a lasting impact on him and his work. He died in 1981 in Pyrgos in the Peloponnese. He was born in Agolinitsa, the first-born son of philologist Giorgos Sinopoulos and Roussa-Veneta Argyropoulou. He studied medicine at the University of Athens, graduating in 1944. In 1934, under the pseudonym Argyros Roubanis, Read more [...]
Manolis Pratikakis

Manolis Pratikakis

Manolis Pratikakis (Greek: Μανόλης Πρατικάκης; born 1943) is a Greek poet. He studied medicine at the University of Athens and is a practicing neurologist and psychiatrist. His first volume of poetry was published in 1974; he is one of the so-called "Genia tou 70," a literary term for Greek authors who began publishing their works in the 1970s, particularly towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and during the early years of the "Metapolitefsi." He received Read more [...]
Elias H. Papadimitrakopoulos

Elias H. Papadimitrakopoulos

Elias H. Papadimitrakopoulos (Pyrgos, Ilia, August 23, 1930 – Athens, November 29, 2024) was a Greek novelist, prose writer, and military doctor. He was born in Pyrgos, Elis, where he spent his childhood and youth. After the death of his father, a lawyer, in 1943, his family faced difficult times. As he later wrote, he studied at the Military Medical Faculty of the University of Thessaloniki from 1949 to 1955 out of necessity. From 1959 to 1968 he served in Kavala. There he first Read more [...]
Pavlos Nirvanas

Pavlos Nirvanas

Pavlos Nirvanas (Greek: Parasloός Niρβάνας, * 1866 in Mariupol, Russian Empire; † 28 November 1937 in Athens, Greece) was a Greek writer whose real name was Petros K. Apostolidis. Nirvanas' father came from Skopelos, his mother from Chios. As a child, Pavlos Nirvanas moved from his then Russian hometown to Greece and lived in Piraeus. He studied medicine at the University of Athens and graduated in 1890. He joined the Navy and rose to the rank of senior physician (γενικός Read more [...]
GEORGE POLYRAKIS

GEORGE POLYRAKIS

George Polyrakis was born in Sfakia, Crete. He studied military medicine and received his doctorate from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He trained as a surgeon and subsequently specialized in vascular surgery at Hammersmith Hospital in London. He currently works as a surgeon in Thessaloniki, where he lives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx3uf8GIQGM He has published 83 scientific articles in Greek and foreign medical journals, given dozens of presentations at medical conferences, Read more [...]
Adamantios Korais

Adamantios Korais

Adamantios Korais (Greek: Αδαμάντιος Κοραής – Adamántios Koraís, also Koraés; April 27, 1748 in Smyrna, Asia Minor, Ottoman Empire – April 6, 1833 in Paris) was a Greek scholar and writer. Korais is considered a reformer of Greek literature. Korais was born in Smyrna, but his father came from the island of Chios, and Korais felt a strong connection to the island. Korais graduated from the Evangelical School of Smyrna and spent most of his life not in Greece, but Read more [...]
Andreas Karkavitsas

Andreas Karkavitsas

Andreas Karkavitsas or Carcavitsas (Greek: Ανδρέας Καρκαβίτσας; Lechaina, 1866 – Marousi, October 10, 1922) was a Greek novelist. He was a naturalist, like Alexandros Papadiamantis. He was born in 1866 in the north-west Peloponnese, in the town of Lechaina in Elis. He studied medicine. As an army doctor, he travelled across a great range of villages and settlements, from which he recorded traditions and legends. Read more [...]