Kostas Varnalis

Kostas Varnalis, born on 14 February 1884 in Burgas, in Eastern Rumelia, into a Greek family from Varna, attended the Greek lycée in Plovdiv and then came to Athens in 1902 to study literature. In the language quarrel he took the side of the popular tongue, and he taught in Burgas, Amaliada and Piraeus. A scholarship took him to Paris in 1919, where he turned to Marxism; it was cut short when the Venizelos government fell. Dismissed from teaching in 1925, he lived by journalism, was deported in 1935 to Agios Efstratios, and received the Lenin Peace Prize in 1959. He died in Athens in December 1974.

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• PoetryΤο φως που καίειKostas Varnalis · 1922not translated into EnglishLiterature