One of the most prominent of Greek prose and journalism, Giorgos Matzouranis, who honored both qualities with his work and his many years as head of the pages of the book in the "Dawn" from 1974 to the 1990s, passed Saturday morning, from a pulmonary edema, in his beloved Sifnos where he spent his summer vacation. He closed his eyes with the care and love of the family, his companion and companion in the adventure of life Ria, their daughter Rodia, Thymios, his grandchildren. His funeral will be on Tuesday at 5pm. In Apollonia.
Giorgos Matzouranis was born in Athens in 1935. He studied at the Panteion University and the University of Munich. Having spent several years in Africa and especially in Germany, he experienced the agony and struggle of the immigrant, and with his return to Greece in 1974, he focused his writing on the issues of Greek expatriates and especially the Greeks of Germany. The letters appeared in 1964 with the collection of short stories "Contact Point", which was a great success in Greece, marking five editions and abroad. The prose of the book on the struggles of Africans for independence, was inspired by the time he spent in Africa. The same story was given by the short stories of the Uhuru-Freedom collection, issued a few months before the junta fell. He also wrote the books "Between Two Worlds", in which he writes "Writers in Germany with a Greek passport", "Wherever I am a Foreigner" (Kastaniotis) and "The Children of the South". We are called Gastebüther ... And in the Homeland Germans "(Gutenberg ed.).