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Greek writer

Antonis Samarakis (Greek: Αντώνης Σαμαράκης; August 16, 1919, in Athens – August 8, 2003, in Pylos) was a Greek writer of the post-war generation whose work explores themes of humanism, dangers of totalitarianism and aspects of social alienation.^[1] He is considered one of the most prolific Greek writers, and the second most translated one, after Nikos Kazantzakis.^[2]

Biography

Antonis Samarakis was born in Athens in 1919.

After graduating from the second high school of the Varvakeio School,^[3] he studied law at the University of Athens. During the Nazi occupation he participated in the greek resistance by joining the National Solidarity, a precursor of the main leftwing resistance organisation, the National Liberation Front.

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Antonis Samarakis was a Greek writer of the post-war generation whose work explores themes of humanism, dangers of totalitarianism and aspects of social alienation.

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Samarakis's first novel, Sima Kindunou (Alarm Signal, ), and second collection of short stories, Arnoumai (I Refuse, ), which won the.

The masterpiece of the Greek writer Antonis Samarakis, To Lathos (The Flaw, ), was eerily prophetic of the military dictatorship that was shortly to be.

In 1944 he was arrested by the Nazis and sentenced to death, but managed to escape. In 1963 he married Eleni Kourebana.

Samarakis worked as an expert of the International Labour Organizati