Month: May 2025

Manolis Pratikakis

Manolis Pratikakis

Manolis Pratikakis (Greek: Μανόλης Πρατικάκης; born 1943) is a Greek poet. He studied medicine at the University of Athens and is a practicing neurologist and psychiatrist. His first volume of poetry was published in 1974; he is one of the so-called "Genia tou 70," a literary term for Greek authors who began publishing their works in the 1970s, particularly towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and during the early years of the "Metapolitefsi." He received Read more [...]
Elias H. Papadimitrakopoulos

Elias H. Papadimitrakopoulos

Elias H. Papadimitrakopoulos (Pyrgos, Ilia, August 23, 1930 – Athens, November 29, 2024) was a Greek novelist, prose writer, and military doctor. He was born in Pyrgos, Elis, where he spent his childhood and youth. After the death of his father, a lawyer, in 1943, his family faced difficult times. As he later wrote, he studied at the Military Medical Faculty of the University of Thessaloniki from 1949 to 1955 out of necessity. From 1959 to 1968 he served in Kavala. There he first Read more [...]
Pavlos Nirvanas

Pavlos Nirvanas

Pavlos Nirvanas (Greek: Parasloός Niρβάνας, * 1866 in Mariupol, Russian Empire; † 28 November 1937 in Athens, Greece) was a Greek writer whose real name was Petros K. Apostolidis. Nirvanas' father came from Skopelos, his mother from Chios. As a child, Pavlos Nirvanas moved from his then Russian hometown to Greece and lived in Piraeus. He studied medicine at the University of Athens and graduated in 1890. He joined the Navy and rose to the rank of senior physician (γενικός Read more [...]
Michail Afanassjewitsch Bulgakow

Michail Afanassjewitsch Bulgakow

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаи́л Афана́сьевич Булга́ков, scientific transliteration: Mikhail Afanas'evič Bulgakov; May 3, 1891 in Kiev, Russian Empire – March 10, 1940 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Russian and Soviet writer. He is considered one of the great satirists of Russian literature. One of his major works is the novel The Master and Margarita, which was published posthumously in 1966 after heavy censorship. The excerpts were distributed Read more [...]
William Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham [ˈsʌməsɪt mɔːm] (January 25, 1874 in Paris – December 16, 1965 in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat near Nice), also known as W. Somerset Maugham, was an English novelist and playwright. He is one of the most widely read English-language authors of the 20th century. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35zdFvas0uQ William Somerset Maugham was the son of an English lawyer who worked for British clients in Paris. His older brother was the jurist Frederic Maugham. His parents Read more [...]
GEORGE POLYRAKIS

GEORGE POLYRAKIS

George Polyrakis was born in Sfakia, Crete. He studied military medicine and received his doctorate from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He trained as a surgeon and subsequently specialized in vascular surgery at Hammersmith Hospital in London. He currently works as a surgeon in Thessaloniki, where he lives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx3uf8GIQGM He has published 83 scientific articles in Greek and foreign medical journals, given dozens of presentations at medical conferences, Read more [...]
Archibald Joseph Cronin

Archibald Joseph Cronin

Archibald Joseph Cronin (July 19, 1896 in Cardross, Scotland; January 6, 1981 in Glion, Switzerland) was a Scottish physician and writer. Some of his novels became international successes. His narrative is characterized by exciting plots, realistic characters, and pronounced social criticism. In his autobiography, Adventures in Two Worlds, he also unequivocally professes his Christian faith. Cronin follows the tradition of the Bildungsroman and uses the techniques of Victorian novel realism. Archibald Read more [...]
Adamantios Korais

Adamantios Korais

Adamantios Korais (Greek: Αδαμάντιος Κοραής – Adamántios Koraís, also Koraés; April 27, 1748 in Smyrna, Asia Minor, Ottoman Empire – April 6, 1833 in Paris) was a Greek scholar and writer. Korais is considered a reformer of Greek literature. Korais was born in Smyrna, but his father came from the island of Chios, and Korais felt a strong connection to the island. Korais graduated from the Evangelical School of Smyrna and spent most of his life not in Greece, but Read more [...]
Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland – July 7, 1930 in Crowborough, Sussex, England) was a British physician and author. He wrote about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson. He is also known for the character Challenger from his novel The Lost World, which served as the basis for numerous films and a television series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7toqzP16H4c In 1880, Doyle traveled to the Arctic as a ship's doctor on the whaler Read more [...]
Andreas Karkavitsas

Andreas Karkavitsas

Andreas Karkavitsas or Carcavitsas (Greek: Ανδρέας Καρκαβίτσας; Lechaina, 1866 – Marousi, October 10, 1922) was a Greek novelist. He was a naturalist, like Alexandros Papadiamantis. He was born in 1866 in the north-west Peloponnese, in the town of Lechaina in Elis. He studied medicine. As an army doctor, he travelled across a great range of villages and settlements, from which he recorded traditions and legends. Read more [...]