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Yiannis Ritsos (Greek: Γιάννης Ρίτσος; 1 May 1909 – 11 November 1990) was a Greek poet and communist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II. While he disliked being regarded as a political poet, he has been called "the great poet of the Greek left".
Yannis Ritsos. 1909–1990. "Yannis Ritsos," wrote Peter Levi in the Times Literary Supplement of the late Greek poet, "is the old-fashioned kind of great poet. His output has been enormous, his life heroic and eventful, his voice is an embodiment of national courage, his mind is tirelessly active."
Oct 5, 2016 · Yiannis Ritsos' 5 Classic Greek Poems You Should Read. Yiannis Ritsos was born in Monemvasia in 1909. He is one of the famous and internationally acknowledged Greek poets, as many of his works have been translated and successfully published in many languages.
Yannis Ritsos (born May 1, 1909, Monemvasia, Greece—died Nov. 11, 1990, Athens) was a popular Greek poet whose work was periodically banned for its left-wing content. Ritsos was born into a wealthy but unfortunate family. His father died insane; his mother and a brother died of tuberculosis when he was 12.
May 1, 2023 · Yannis Ritsos was born on May 1st 1909 in Monemvasia, Greece, and he was destined to become one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. A prominent and prolific Greek poet with international appeal, Ritsos belonged to the so-called 1930s generation.
Plagued by turberculosis, family misfortunes, and repeated persecution for his Communist views, Yiannis Ritsos ( Monemvasia 1909-Athens 1990) spent many years in sanatorums, prisons, or in political exile while producing dozen of volumes of lyrics, dramas and translations.
Jun 9, 2015 · Yiannis Ritsos’s ‘Epitaphios,’ a song that both united and divided Greeks. It was May 1936, a time when widespread industrial action and protests rocked Greece. One, a rally by striking tobacco workers in Thessaloniki, ended in bloodshed, with 12 dead, among them 25-year-old Tassos Tousis.
