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Tasos Livaditis (1922-88) is one of the greatest poets of the first post-war generation. He was born and raised in Athens, and from a young age, he showed interest in both poetry and politics.

His political ideas and his involvement in the National Liberation Front (EAM) during World War II led to his arrest and imprisonment.

With the escalation of the civil war in June 1948, he was arrested and exiled to Moudros.

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From 1948 to 1952, he was exiled for his political beliefs to Lemnos, Ai Stratis, and Makronisos, along with other left-wing artists and intellectuals, such as Yannis Ritsos, Aris Alexandrou, and Manos Katrakis.

He was released in late 1951, and immediately after, he made his poetic debut, vividly expressing the horror of war and the longing for justice and peace.

In 1952, his poetry collections “Battle at the Edge of the Night” and “This Star is for All of Us” were published. The following year, his poetry collection “It Blows at the Crossr