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- Pages: 706
- Publication: 1976
- Dimensions: 25 x 18
- Categories: Books, Humanities & Social Sciences, Ιστορία
Grigoris Dafnis
He was born in 1909 in Corfu and studied at the Law School of Athens. He worked as a journalist and columnist for various newspapers. During the Occupation, he was imprisoned for his resistance activities, but eventually escaped and fled to Egypt with the Greek government-in-exile. He worked with Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou and the Ministry of Information immediately after liberation in 1944.
He served as Director-General of the Athens News Agency from 1963 to 1965, during the Centre Union governments under Georgios Papandreou. In 1965, he sided with the ‘Defectors’ and was appointed Director-General of the then National Radio Foundation (EIR), a post he held until the imposition of the junta in 1967.
Daphnis wrote many books on history and politics, notably ‘Sophocles Eleftherios Venizelos’ (a biography of Sophocles Venizelos) and ‘Greece between Two Wars, 1923–1940’, which is considered a classic work on this period.
He died in Athens in 1977.
