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Nikos Kavvadias ((ギリシア語:Νίκος Καββαδίας); January 11, 1910 in Nikolsk-Ussuriysky – February 10, 1975 in Athens) was a Greek poet and writer; who used his travels around the world as a sailor, and life at sea and its adventures, as powerful metaphors for the escape of ordinary people outside the boundaries of reality. == Early life and education == Kavvadias was born in Nikolsk-Ussuriysky (now Ussuriysk in the Primorsky Krai region of Russia). This, he believed to have permanently linked him to the Far East as he wrote in one of his short stories titled "Li". His parents were Greek, originating from the island of Cefalonia and as a young child he had the opportunity to travel extensively. His family returned to their island home for a few years before finally moving to Pireus, Athens' port, in 1921. He wrote his first poems while in grammar school. In 1928, after having graduated from high school he sat an entrance exam for medical school but as his father fell sick that same year, young Kavvadias was forced to get a job as an office clerk in a shipping company to help his family. He lasted only a few months and after his father's death, he went on board the freighter ship ''Agios Nikolaos'' (Saint Nicholas) as a sailor. For the following years he worked on freighter boats, returning home wretched and penniless. At that point he aspired to train as a captain but settled for a diploma as a radio officer instead, which he got in 1939. By that time however, World War II had started and he was sent to fight in Albania. During the German occupation of Greece, he joined the National Liberation Front (EAM) and became a member of the Communist Party. When the war ended in 1944, he embarked again and traveled continuously, this time as a radio officer, until November 1974. These experiences at sea and the exotic ports he visitited became the material for his poetry. Returning from his last trip and as he was preparing the publication of his third collection of poems, he died suddenly from a stroke on February 10, 1975, after only three months off sea.〔(BooksInfo ) Website on Nikos Kavadias, retrieved on 14 December 2009〕 Since his death, his poetry has been popularized in Greece, partly because of Thanos Mikroutsikos who released an album with Kavvadias' poetry set to his music in his very popular albums ''Σταυρός του Νότου'' (Southern Cross) () and ''Γραμμές των Οριζόντων'' (Horizons' Lines) (). 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「Nikos Kavvadias」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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