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Nikos Nikolaidis

Died in 1956

Nikos Nikolaidis was born in 1884 in Nicosia. He left school after the fourth year of primary school, was an apprentice bookbinder then an icon painter, and taught himself. In 1907 he attended the painting courses of the Athens Polytechnic as an auditor, then went to Alexandria; he settled for good in Egypt in 1923 and then lived in Cairo. A painter and writer, he published short stories, novels and prose poems, and died in Cairo in 1956.

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