Yiannis Yannis Ritsos was a Greek poet and communist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II.
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12 Facts About Yannis Ritsos
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Yannis Ritsos maintained a working-class circle of friends and published Tractor in 1934.
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Yannis Ritsos was inspired for his landmark poem Epitaphios by a photo of a dead protester during a massive tobacco-workers demonstration in Thessaloniki in May 1936.
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Yannis Ritsos responded by taking his work in a different direction.
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Yannis Ritsos began to explore the conquests of surrealism through the domain of dreams, surprising associations, explosions of images and symbols, a lyricism illustrative of the anguish of the poet, and both tender and bitter souvenirs.
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Yannis Ritsos supported the Left in the subsequent Civil War ; in 1948 he was arrested and spent four years in prison camps.
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Today, Yannis Ritsos is considered one of the great Greek poets of the twentieth century, alongside Konstantinos Kavafis, Kostas Kariotakis, Angelos Sikelianos, Giorgos Seferis, and Odysseas Elytis.
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Yannis Ritsos's poetry was banned at times in Greece due to his left wing beliefs.
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Notable works by Yannis Ritsos include Pyramids, Epitaphios, Vigil, Romiosini and 18 short songs of the bitter Motherland .
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Yannis Ritsos won the first Greek state poetry award for Moonlight Sonata:.
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Yannis Ritsos is a Golden Wreath Laureate of the Struga Poetry Evenings for 1985.
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Yannis Ritsos's daughter, Eri, was a candidate for the European Parliament with KKE in the elections of 25 May 2014.
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