Γιάννης Ρίτσος

Yannis Ritsos was born in Monemvasia (Greece), in 1909. Ritsos published his first poetry work in 1934. He won the National prize of poetry for his Moonlight Sonata poem.

In 1967, Yannis Ritsos was arrested by the George Papadopoulos dictatorship and spent many years in the Yiaros prison camp. His poetry was banned in Greece.
Ritsos died in 1990, at home. He wrote more than one hundred books of poems and essays.