him everything he loved the most. Once he gets healthy again, he publishes collections of poems and gets hired as a journal correspondent to the Soviet Union.
His poems had mainly political content. He believed in communism and fought for his political ideas. His books were banned for some periods and he was also exiled many times in Leros, Ai-Stratis, Giaros, Makronisos and other small islands that were used as prison camps for political prisoners.
In 1956, he got married to Filitsa Georgiadi, a doctor, and had a daughter. In 1956, he got the National Poetry Award and in 1977, the Lenin Peace Award. He was unsuccessfully proposed for the Nobel Prize for Literature nine times.
Along his hassled life, he published almost 120 works, among which are collections of poems, theatre plays, essays and translations.
He died in Athens in 1990, disappointed by the decline of the communistic regime in the Soviet Union. He was buried in Monemvasia and his grave lies still there, in the cemetery of Monemvasia, right below the castle.
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