Stratis Tsirkas

Yánnis Hadziandréas, who took the name Stratis Tsirkas, was born in Cairo in 1911 into a Greek family of Egypt. He was an accountant in Upper Egypt for about ten years, then ran a tannery in Alexandria from 1938 to 1963, where he met Cavafy and frequented communist circles. After the split in the left, he joined the Communist Party of the Interior, and under the dictatorship took part in the Dix-huit textes. He settled in Greece in 1963 and died in Athens in 1980.

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• NovelDrifting CitiesΑκυβέρνητες πολιτείεςStratis Tsirkas · 1961Literature