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Yiannis Ritsos (Greek: Γιάννης Ρίτσος; 1 May 1909 – 11 November 1990) was a Greek poet and communist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II. While he disliked being regarded as a political poet, he has been called "the great poet of the Greek left".
Known for
- Evidence — Self1975
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Greece
- Active from
- 1909
- Active to
- 1990
Discography
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,574x
- Visual Genome: Connecting Language and Vision Using Crowdsourced Dense Image Annotations
· 2017 · cited 3,629x
- Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
· 2021 · cited 3,147x
- Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2024 · cited 2,057x
- On Clustering Validation Techniques
· 2001 · cited 1,959x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1909-05-01 ) 1 May 1909, Monemvasia , Greece
- Died
- 11 November 1990 (1990-11-11) (aged 81), Athens , Greece
- Occupation
- Poet
- Literary movement
- Modernism , Generation of the '30s
- Notable awards
- Lenin Peace Prize , 1975
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Giannis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Greece
- Place of birth
- Q654616
- Place of death
- Athens
- Occupation
- writer
- Political party
- Communist Party of Greece
- Languages spoken
- Greek
- Native language
- Greek
- Field of work
- translation
- Movement
- realism
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- Commons category
- Yiannis Ritsos
- date of birth
- 1909-05-01
- date of death
- 1990-11-11
- place of burial
- Q654616
- member of
- National Liberation Front
- birth name
- Ιωάννης Ρίτσος
- start of work period
- 1934-00-00
- writing language
- Greek
- name in native language
- Γιάννης Ρίτσος
- pseudonym
- Πέτρος Βελιώτης
- end of work period
- 1990-00-00
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Works in European collections
16 objects attributed to Yannis Ritsos, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Yiannis Ritsos (Greek: Γιάννης Ρίτσος [ˈritsos]; 1 May 1909 – 11 November 1990) was a Greek poet and communist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II. While he disliked being regarded as a political poet, he has been called "the great poet of the Greek left".
Early life
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