Costas Montis

Costas Montis was born on 18 February 1914 in Famagusta. He took a law degree in Athens but could not practise on his return in 1937, and worked in a mining company, then in an accountancy school. In 1942 he founded the island's first professional theatre, was secretary general of the chamber of commerce, gave political guidance in Nicosia to fighters in the struggle against the British, and ran tourism from 1961 to 1976. Proposed for the Nobel in 1984, he died in Nicosia on 1 March 2004.

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