Lorentzos Mavilis
Author: Mavilis, Lorentzos Mavilis
Date of Birth: 1860, Ithaca
Gender: Male
Biography: Lorenzos Mavilis was born on September 6, 1860 in Ithaca, where his father, Pavlos Mavilis, of Spanish descent, served as a judge. His mother, Ioanna Soufi, was a niece of Governor Ioannis Kapodistrias. Mavilis finished his high school studies in Corfu and studied for a year (1877-1878) at the University of Athens School of Philosophy. Read more “Lorentzos Mavilis”
Aristotelis Valaoritis
Author: Valaoritis, Aristotelis Valaoritis
Date of Birth: 1824, Lefkada
Gender: Male
Biography: Aristotelis Valaoritis was born in Lefkada in 1824, the first-born son of Senator John Valaoritis and of the Kefallinian noblewoman Anastasia of the Tipaldus-Forrest family. He lived in Lefkada until his childhood in 1838, when he settled in Corfu to study at the Ionian Academy as an intern with Hellenist I. Economidis. Read more “Aristotelis Valaoritis”
Iakovos Polylas
Author: Polylas, Iakovos Polylas
Date of Birth: 1825, Corfu
Gender: Male
Biography: Jakovos Polylas was born in Corfu in 1825, the son of the laywer and scholar George Polylas and Helen, the son of Nicholas Voulgaris. Jakovos Polylas came from a prominent Corfu family – but his origin is traced to Konstantinopolis. His mother was educated and taught him the first letters, as well as foreign languages (English, French, Italian, German) and ancient Greek. Read more “Iakovos Polylas”
Andreas Kalvos
Author: Kalvos, Andreas Kalvos
Date of Birth: April 1792, Zakynthos
Gender: Male
Biography: Andreas Kalvos was born in Zakynthos, the first son of Corfu doctor Ioannis Calvos and Zakynthian noblewoman Adrian Roukani. After the breakup of his parents, his father left for Italy, and the poet departed in 1802 with his younger brother Nicolas to live with him. Kalvos as a student was first in Zakynthos and continued his studies in the Greek community in Livorno and Florence, where he became friend with Andreas Louriotis (1808). Read more “Andreas Kalvos”
Nikolaos Kavvadias
Author: Kavvadias, Nikos Kavvadias
Date of Birth: January 11, 1910, in Nikolsk-Ussuriysky, a provincial town in the Vladivostok region of Russia
Gender: Male
Biography: Nikolaos (Nikos) Kavvadias was born on January 11, 1910, in Nikolsk-Ussuriysky, a provincial town in the Vladivostok region of Russia, from parents from Kefalonia, Harilaos Kavvadias and Dorothea Angelatou. In this small Russian town, two more children are born: Jenny (Eugenia) and Mikia (Dimitris). His father, Charilaos Kavvadias, maintained a general trade office distributing large quantities of merchandise to the Tsarist army.
Angelos Sikelianos
Author: Sikelianos, Angelos Sikelianos
Date of Birth: 15 March 1884, Lefkada, Ionian Islands
Gender: Male
Biography: Angelos Sikelianos was born on 15 March 1884 in Lefkada. He was the last of the five children of Ioannis Sikelianos, a professor of Italian and French at the local high school, and Haricleia Sikelianou, a cultivated and man-made woman.
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Konstantinos Theotokis
Author: Theotokis, Stephanos-Konstantinos Theotokis
Date of Birth: May 13th, 1872, Corfu, Corfu Island
Gender: Male
Biography: Konstantinos Theotokis was born in Corfu town in Corfu Island. He received general education in schools in Corfu and from an early age he showed great interest in natural sciences.
Elizabeth Moutzan-Martinegkou
Author: Elizabeth Moutzan-Martinegou
Date of Birth: 1801, Zakynthos Island
Gender: Female
Biography: Zakynthian writer Elizabeth Moutzan-Martinegou is the first remarkable example of female writing in the Modern Greek Literature. Martinegou was born in October 1801 and died in November 1832. Her parents, Fragkiskos Moutzan and Angeliki Sigouros, came from two of the oldest aristocratic families of Zakynthos.
Gregorios Ksenopoulos
Author: Ksenopoulos, Gregorios Ksenopoulos
Date of Birth: December 9, 1867, Constantinople
Gender: Male
Biography: One of the most prolific writers of this generation is Gregorios Ksenopoulos (1867-1951), from Zakynthos. He was born in Constantinople on December 9, 1867.
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