Giannis Skarimpas


Giannis Skarimpas, Giannis Skarimbas or Yiannis Skarimbas, was a Greek writer, dramatist, and poet.

Biography

He was born in Agia Efthymia near Amfissa. He went to school in Aigio and Patras, went through military service in the 5/42 Evzone Regiment and was then appointed head of the customs office at Eretria. In 1915 he resettled to Chalkida, where he spent most of his life. He had his first works published in newspapers in Athens and Chalkida under the pen name Kallis Esperinos. His first publication under his own name came in 1929, when he published his novel O Kapetan Sourmelis o Stouraitis in the Ellinika Grammata magazine. He died on January 21, 1984, in Chalkida.

Works