Alexandros Papadiamantis

Alexandros Papadiamantis, born on Skiathos in 1851, the son of an Orthodox priest and fourth of nine children of a poor family, abandoned his studies in Athens and lived there for fifty years in wretched rooms, on translations paid by the line: he gave the newspapers some Dostoevsky and some Maupassant, and sang in church on Sundays. He never married and wrote nearly two hundred short stories, almost all set on his island. He returned there to die, in 1911, in the house where he was born, which is now a museum. His face has appeared on Greek banknotes.

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• NovelΗ φόνισσαAlexandros Papadiamantis · 1903not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain