Nanos Valaoritis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nanos Valaoritis

Greek poet

Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1921

Place of Birth: Lausanne, canton of Bern, Switzerland

Date of Death: 13-Sep-2019

Profession: writer, poet, university teacher

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Ioannis (Nanos) Valaoritis (Greek: ??????? (?????) ?a?a???t??; 5 July 1921 – 13 September 2019) was a Greek writer, widely published as a poet, novelist and playwright since 1939; his correspondence with George Seferis (Allilographia 1945-1968, Ypsilon, Athens 2004) was a bestseller.
Raised within a cosmopolitan family with roots in the Greek War of Independence but twice driven into exile by events, Valaoritis lived in Greece, the United Kingdom, France and the United States, and as a writer and academic he played a significant role in introducing the literary idioms of each country to the rest.
The quality, the international appeal, and the influence of his work led Valaoritis to be described as the most important poet of the Hellenic diaspora since Constantine Cavafy.