Kostis Palamas

Kostis Palamas was born in Patras on 13 January 1859, lost his parents as a child and grew up in Missolonghi, where his family came from; he gave up law for journalism and was, from 1897 to 1928, secretary general of the University of Athens. Leader of the generation of 1880, he established the spoken language in poetry, wrote in 1896 the words of the Olympic hymn that Spyros Samaras set to music, and was nominated fourteen times for the Nobel without receiving it. He died on 27 February 1943: at his funeral, under the occupation, the crowd sang the banned national anthem without the police daring to intervene.

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• PoetryΟ τάφοςKostis Palamas · 1898not translated into EnglishLiterature