Angelos sikelianos biography of mahatma

Angelos Sikelianos was one of the greatest poets and playwrights and he was five times nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

He was born on 15 March 1884 in Lefkada, where he spent his childhood.

His father was a professor of the French language. In 1900, he went to Athens in order to study at the Law School but he never finished his studies.

 

 

His interest for poetry led him to study Homer, Pindarus, the Bible as well as foreign writers such as Gabriele D’Annunzio.

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The next years he travelled extensively and devoted himself to poetry and theater.

In 1907, he married Eva Palmer. They married in the United States and moved to Athens a year later. During that period, Sikelianos came in contact with Greek intellectuals, and in 1909 he published his first collection of poems,“Alafroískïotos”, which had an immediate impact and was recognized by critics as an important work.

 

 

During the Balkan Wars (1912-1913), in which he took part, he wr