biography
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Cavafy, Constantine
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pseudonym of Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis
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pronunciation:
[kavafee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1863–1933)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Alexandria, N Egypt, of a Greek family. After his father's death in 1872 he was taken to England for five years, and apart from three years in Istanbul (1882–5) he spent the rest of his life in Alexandria, where he worked as a civil servant, making it the setting of much of his poetry. His first book was privately published when he was 41, and reissued five years later with an additional seven poems. He published no further work during his lifetime, but in recent years he has come to be regarded as a major modern Greek poet. |
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