Giorgos K. Katsimpalis

Giorgos Katsimbalis (1899-1978). Giorgos Katsimbalis was born in Athens, the son of the scholar Konstantinos Katsimbalis. He grew up in an environment rich in intellectual stimuli and was particularly influenced by the personality of Kostis Palamas, who was a close friend of his family. He attended courses at the Law School of the University of Paris but did not graduate. Upon returning to Athens, he engaged with literary and artistic circles. He published translations and studies on significant European authors who were then unknown to the Greek reading public and promoted the literary output of the so-called Generation of the '30s through the pages of the magazines "Ta Nea Grammata" (1935-1944) and "Anglo-Hellenic Review" (1945-1952), which he directed. Like his father, he studied the works of Kostis Palamas and also published an anthology of contemporary Greek poetry and, primarily, bibliographical studies on writers such as Alexandros Papadiamantis, Kostas Krystallis, Angelos Sikelianos, C. P. Cavafy, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Rimbaud, among others. He passed away in Athens. The information was sourced from the entries, h.s., "Katsimbalis Giorgos," in the "World Biographical Dictionary," vol. 4, Athens, Ekdotiki Athinon, 1985, and Alexis Ziras, "Katsimbalis Giorgos," in the "Dictionary of Modern Greek Literature," Athens, Patakis Publishers, 2007. (Source: Archive of Greek Authors, E.KE.VI.).