Alexandros Papadiamantis

Greek short-story writer.

Born March 4th, 1851 in Skiathos. [ref]

Died January 3rd, 1911 at 59 years old in Skiathos (pneumonia). [ref]

Occupations
journalist, translator, writer

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel