Yorgos Ioannou

Yorgos Ioannou, whose real name was Sorolopis, was born in Thessaloniki on 20 November 1927 to refugee parents from Eastern Thrace, and spent the Occupation in Chalcidice and then in Athens. A graduate in literature at Thessaloniki in 1950, he first published two collections of verse, taught in the provinces and founded the Greek high school in Benghazi. After 1974, he prepared the school anthologies of Greece restored to democracy, received in 1980 the first State Prize for prose, and died in Athens on 16 February 1985, following an operation.

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• Short storiesΓια ένα φιλότιμοYorgos Ioannou · 1964not translated into EnglishLiterature