Andreas Karkavitsas

Andreas Karkavitsas, born in Lechaina, in Elis, in 1865, the son of a merchant, studied medicine in Athens and served twenty years as a military doctor, which took him to villages throughout Greece, whose customs he recorded. He sailed for a year on a cargo ship. Having moved around 1892 from the learned language to the popular speech, he publicly disowned his first books because of their language. Arrested in Thessaloniki in 1916 for his opposition to the Venizelist movement, he was imprisoned for a few months and then sent into internal exile. He died in Athens in 1922.

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• NovelΟ ζητιάνοςAndreas Karkavitsas · 1896not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain