Constantine Cavafy

Constantine Cavafy was born in Alexandria on 29 April 1863 into a family of Greek merchants from Constantinople. After his father's death, the crisis of 1873 ruined the family firm: he spent part of his childhood in Liverpool and London, then more than two years in Constantinople. Back in his city in 1885, he was for thirty years an employee of the Ministry of Public Works, and throughout his life refused to publish his poems in book form: he printed them on loose sheets and gave them away. He died of cancer of the larynx on 29 April 1933, his seventieth birthday. His flat on Lepsius Street is now a museum.

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