Writers

Kostis Palamas (1859-1943)

Born in Patras by parents and returned Mesologi orphaned at age 7 years in Missolonghi, which always felt a real home. In 1876 he went to Athens and is written in the law (it was his father a lawyer), but will leave soon to devote himself to literature. He left an enormous poetic work, which was dedicated abandoning legal. Odes, elegies, satires, dramas, translations. Many of the poems he dedicated to his favorite Misolongi, as saying.

Miltiadis Malakasis (1869-1943)

Born into a wealthy family and reveler, the poet of "Taki Wealth" and "batteries" is considered one of the best lyric of his generation. In 1888 he enrolled at the Law School, but abandoned it for poetry. His acquaintance with Jean Moreas influenced his poetry, like his stay in Paris from 1909 to 1915. In Mesolonghi poems - himself acknowledged as his best - awakens the consciousness of the place and of itself. There, "the institute cause of mental well being is always the nostalgia of native land." He married the daughter of Prime Mesolonghi Deligiorgi.

Anthony Traflantonis (1867-1943)

He studied literature at Athens and served in education as a teacher, headmaster, Superintendent, Educational Consultant. It was considered one of the most renowned teachers of his time. He served in the Greek schools - from Mersin in Asia Minor, in Corfu - studied the psychology of ordinary people and their problems that fueled the prose. With enviable narrative, with source and good humor, but above all with love and understanding man gave us stories with strong genre painting - not ethimografiko - character. His work displayed a higher humanism. In 1931 he was honored by the Athens Academy Award Vikelas.