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Costas Montis (Greek: Κώστας Μόντης; 1914–2004) was an influential and prolific Cypriot poet, novelist, and playwright. ==Biography== Costas Montis was born on 18 February 1914 in Famagusta, the sixth and last child of Theodoulos Montis from Lapithos, and Kalomoira Batista, who was descended from an old Venetian family of Famagusta. His youth was scarred by a series of family tragedies. In 1922 his 21-year-old brother George died of tuberculosis, and his brother Nikos died even younger, at the age of 16, of leukaemia. His mother also died of tuberculosis in 1926, and she was followed four years later by her husband, who died of cancer. After graduating from the Pancyprian Gymnasium, Costas Montis studied law at the University of Athens, but in 1937 on his return to Cyprus (then under British rule) he could not work as a lawyer because his degree was Greek. Instead he got a job in 1938 in the Accounting Office of the Greek Mining Company in Nicosia. Within a month he was transferred to the mines of Mitsero as supervisor of the company offices there, and the following month to the mines of Kalavasos again as supervisor. A year later he was promoted to assistant manager at the company offices in Nicosia. At the same time he worked as a correspondent for the newspaper ''Eleftheria''. In 1940 the mines were closed because of the Second World War, and Costas Montis worked as a teacher at a school of accounting in Morphou. In 1942 Costas Montis got engaged to his sweetheart, 19-year-old Ersi, daughter of Pantelis Constantinou and Maria Gabrielidou from Morphou. In the same year he moved to Nicosia and founded, with Achilleas Lymbourides and Phivos Moussoulides, Cyprus’s first professional theatre, the Lyriko. The theatre closed down in 1944, and Montis returned to the school of accounting in Morphou, until in 1946 he was appointed senior editor of ''The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce Journal''. At the same time he published, until 1947, the independent newspaper ''Free Voice'' (Ελεύθερη Φωνή). He married Ersi in 1946, and they had four children: Theodoulos, Marios, Lellos, and Stalo. In 1948 he was appointed editor at the newspaper ''Ethnos''. Then in 1950 he became Secretary General of the Chamber of Commerce of Cyprus. From 1953 he published the ''Cyprus Trade Journal'', in both Greek and English, and from 1956 until 1969, he was in charge of the literary section of the magazine ''Times of Cyprus''. After Cyprus became independent he was appointed Head of Tourism (1961). He remained in this position until his retirement in 1976. He died on 1 March 2004 in his home in Nicosia. During the campaign for independence in the 50s, Costas Montis participated in the struggle “as political guide of the members of EOKA in Nicosia”.〔See http://www.costasmontis.com/biography.html.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Costas Montis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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