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Takis Papatsonis

Died in 1976

Takis Papatsonis, born in Athens in 1895, was schooled at the French Institute of the city and published his first verses young in the daily Akropolis. He studied law and political science in Athens, then economics in Geneva, and served forty years in the Ministry of Finance, where he became secretary general and then director. A Catholic in an Orthodox country, he produced in 1933 the first Greek version of Eliot's The Waste Land, kept a critical column in Kathimeriní for five years, presided over the National Gallery from 1953 to 1964, entered the Academy of Athens, and died in Athens on 26 July 1976.

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