Ektor Kaknavatos is the pen name

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 of Greek poet and essayist Yorgis Kontoyorgis (1920–9 November 2010), who was born in Peireus, Greece. Between 1937 and 1941 he studied mathematics

Mathematics

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 in Athens. After World War II

World War II

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 he worked as a teacher of mathematics and then as a civil servant in the Ministry of education.

He appeared for the first time with the collection Fuga in 1943. After 18 years of silence, in 1961, he circulated in a small circle of friends the collection Diaspora (Dissemination). A pure surrealist

Surrealism

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, he experiences poetically-revolutionary the paradox of his Greek fate.

Collected works

• Piimata 1943–1974
• Piimata 1978–1987