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The work of the literary men of the period after Second World War

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27/11/2008
The work of the literary men of the period after Second World War

In Larissa, from 1945 to 1967, literary men lived and created in exclusion, in a social loneliness. The literary figures who did not leave in big urban centres (like Damianos Voulgarakis, Vasiliki Papagianni and Makis Lachanas), they suffered – as it is expressed through their discourses, it is very likely that they “hated” their birthplace.

27/11/2008
Damianos Voulgarakis

Larissian journalist Damianos Voulgarakis wrote in a naturalistic manner. Around 1945, he published the study “Thessalian Bazaar” and tries to underline the interest that ethnographic themes could have for the local socio-cultural practices.

27/11/2008
Vasiliki Papagianni

Vasiliki Papagianni was born in Larissa at 1927. As a teenager, he was member of the National Unity of Resistance (EAM). When she was twenty five years old, she studied Economic and Political Studies at the Aristotetle University of Thessaloniki and she returned in Larissa...

26/11/2008
Makis Lachanas

Psychiatrist, Makis Lachanas, was born in Larissa at 1924. Historian, Sotiris Pastakas described him as the literary twin of photographer Takis Tloupas. Makis Lachanas is a very important literary figure of Larissian and Greek letters.

26/11/2008
Giannis Negrepontes

Giannis Negrepontes (Larissa, 1930 – Athens, 1991), was the pseudonym of poet Giannis Ksinotroulias. He left Larissa very early and he didn’t keep some special bonds with his birthplace. But the general context of his childhood in Larissa influenced his work.

30/11/2008
Kostas Tsiropoulos

Kostas Tsiropoulos born in Larissa at 1930. He graduated from Aristotetle University of Thessaloniki. He followed law studies in Aristotetle University and history of art in Barcelona and Paris.