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The poet Michalis Ganas has passed away

He departed from life at the age of 80

The Epic of Elytis: From the Albanian Front to the Nobel Prize

The poet who was inspired to create masterpieces like the unparalleled *Axion Esti*, drawing on his experiences in Albania in 1940, where he served on the front lines as a reserve officer, returns symbolically to the museum bearing his name, now inaugurated in the heart of Plaka

Grecophile poet Edmund Keeley passed away at 94

Keeley was one of the giants of Greek literary translation to English

Poet Nanos Valaoritis dies at 98

He was the great-grandson of famous poet Aristotle Valaoritis

Greece honors Dodecanese, poet Kostis Palamas with new coins

Inscribed along that rim is the phrase “1948-2018 the union of the Dodecanese with Greece and Hellenic Republic” in Greek

Kostis Palamas: The great poet of Hellenism

He died exactly 75 years ago, on February 27, 1943