Giorgos Sarantaris

Giorgos Sarantaris, born in Constantinople in 1908, lived in Italy from 1910 to 1931, studied law at Bologna and Macerata and took a doctorate there: he wrote his first verses in Italian and in Greek, and published in Italian and in French. Settled in Greece at the age of twenty-three, he was one of the first to introduce Kierkegaard's thought there, published three essays on the philosophy of existence between 1937 and 1939, and was influenced by Ungaretti. Elytis acknowledged his debt. Having left for the Albanian front in 1940, he contracted typhoid fever near Premet and died in Athens on 25 February 1941, aged thirty-three.

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• PoetryΣτους φίλους μιας άλλης χαράςGiorgos Sarantaris · 1940not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain