Nikiforos Vrettakos

Nikiforos Vrettakos, born on 1 January 1912 in Krokees, in Laconia, the second son of a large, poor family, went to school in Krokees and Gytheio. He went up to Athens in 1929 to study but had to give it up for lack of money, and lived on labouring jobs and then office work. He fought in Albania in 1940 and joined the resistance during the Occupation. A municipal councillor of Piraeus from 1955 to 1959, he brought into being there a theatre, a philharmonic and an art gallery. Nominated four times for the Nobel, he went into exile in Switzerland under the colonels and died in August 1991.

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• PoetryΟ χρόνος και το ποτάμιNikiforos Vrettakos · 1957not translated into EnglishLiterature