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Γιάννης Ρίτσος

real name Ιωάννης Ρίτσος = Ioannis Ritsos

Γιάννης Ρίτσος is credited on 679 releases across 142 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1960–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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142

Albums

7

Decades active

2

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Biography

Yannis Ritsos was a Greek poet. Born 1 May 1909 in Monemvasia, Laconia, Greece - Died 11 November 1990 in Athens, Greece.
His poetry was banned at times in Greece for its left wing content. Ritsos was unsuccessfully proposed nine times for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
In 1975, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Thessaloniki and was awarded the great French poetry prize "Alfred de Vigny". The following year he was awarded the "Lenin" peace prize in Moscow. In the following years he was awarded prizes at various foreign universities: Birmingham (1978), Karl Marx of Leipzig (1984) and the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens (1987). In 1986 he was awarded the UN "Poet of International Peace" prize.
Uncle of Γιάννης Γλέζος & Δέσποινα Γλέζου.

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Credited work

679 releases · 142 albums · active 1960–2024

  • Performance · 937
  • Other credits · 116

Studios: Polysound Studio · Columbia Studio · Europa Film · Herod Atticus Odeon

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