Ektor Kaknavatos

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Ektor Kaknavatos (Greek : Έκτωρ Κακναβάτος) is the pen name of Greek poet and essayist Yorgοs Kontoyorgis (Γιώργος Κοντογιώργης; 1920 – 9 November 2010), who was born in Piraeus, Greece. Between 1937 and 1941 he studied mathematics in Athens. After World War II he worked as a teacher of mathematics and then as a civil servant in the Ministry of education.

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He appeared for the first time with the collection Fuga in 1943. After 18 years of silence, in 1961, he circulated in a small circle of friends the collection Diaspora (Dissemination). A pure surrealist, he experiences poetically-revolutionary the paradox of his Greek fate.

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