Kostas Karyotakis

Kostas Karyotakis, born in Tripoli on 30 October 1896, was the son of a prefectural engineer whose postings made the family move about ten times. A law graduate, he gave up the bar for lack of clients and entered the prefectural administration, in Thessaloniki, Syros, Arta, Athens and finally Patras. Secretary of the Athens civil servants' union in 1928, he was transferred for political reasons. He translated Villon, Baudelaire, Verlaine and Corbière, and founded with a friend a satirical magazine that the police banned at the sixth issue. Transferred to Preveza, he took his own life there on 21 July 1928.

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• PoetryΕλεγεία και ΣάτιρεςKostas Karyotakis · 1927not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain