14 Facts About George Katsimbalis

George Katsimbalis was a Greek intellectual, editor and writer, and member of the Generation of the '30s.

George Katsimbalis was known as "The Colossus of Maroussi" owing to Henry Miller's work of the same title.

George Katsimbalis's father, Constantine Katsimbalis, was a professor who studied in Paris.

George Katsimbalis's mother was a Greek woman from the Gousios family of Romania.

That same year, George Katsimbalis left the family to fight for Greece in World War I He left by ship from Marseilles to Greece, but the ship was torpedoed by a German Navy submarine, Surviving the attack, Katsimbalis ended up in Egypt.

George Katsimbalis eventually reached Thessaloniki, then served as a second lieutenant in the Greek Army on the Macedonian front.

George Katsimbalis attended courses at the Sorbonne University Law School, but did not graduate.

George Katsimbalis fought with the Greek Army in the unsuccessful invasion of Turkey.

In 1924, the entire George Katsimbalis family returned to Greece for permanent settlement.

In 1939, George Katsimbalis married Aspasia Sakorrafo, the daughter of a university professor.

George Katsimbalis was buried in the first cemetery of Athens.

George Katsimbalis published 43 bibliographical works, 19 Greek and 14 foreign scholars, while already in 1925 he presented in London, a translation of poems.

George Katsimbalis was introduced to Henry Miller in the late 1930s in Athens by their common friend and writer Lawrence Durrell.

Miller and George Katsimbalis became close friends and that is described in Miller's book The Colossus of Maroussi.