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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1859
- Died
- 1943
- Works
- 71
Top works
- Hymnos eis tēn Athēnan
- Sarkolatria
- Vradinē phōtia
- Ta dekatetrasticha
- Gyro sto Solōmo
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1859-01-13 ) 13 January 1859, Patras , Greece
- Died
- 27 February 1943 (1943-02-27) (aged 84), Athens , Greece
- Occupation
- Poet
- Nationality
- Greek
- Education
- University of Athens , (no degree)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Greece
- Place of birth
- Patras
- Place of death
- Athens
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Greek
- Image
- Κωστής Παλαμάς.jpg
- Residence
- Missolonghi
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- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- place of burial
- First Cemetery of Athens
- name in native language
- Κωστής Παλαμάς
- Commons Creator page
- Kostis Palamas
- member of
- Academy of Athens
- Commons category
- Kostis Palamas
- date of birth
- 1859-01-13
- date of death
- 1943-02-27
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
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Works in European collections
32 objects attributed to Kostis Palamas, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Kostis Palamas (/pæləˈmɑːs/; Greek: Κωστής Παλαμάς [palaˈmas]; 13 January [O.S. 8 January] 1859 – 27 February 1943) was a Greek poet who wrote the words to the Olympic Hymn. He was a central figure of the Greek literary generation of the 1880s and one of the cofounders of the so-called New Athenian School (or Palamian School, or Second Athenian School) along with Georgios Drosinis and Ioannis Polemis.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kostis Palamas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.