Stratis Myrivilis

Among the most important novelists, our Stratis Myrivilis belongs to the generation of '30,

although older . Efstratios Stamatopoulos was born on June 30, 1892 in Turkish Sykamia of Lesbos. Average student in primary school in 1909 graduated from the High School of Mytilene. From his student years in contact with important demotic texts that shape the literary. In 1912 we find him studying Philosophy School, while working as a journalist. In September of the same year cut his studies and enlisted as a volunteer in the army. Take part in the Balkan Wars, injured

the battle of Kilkis in 1913 and returned to Athens. His writings already published in journals of Smyrna and Mytilini.

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