Dimitrios Hatzis ( el, Δημήτριος Χατζής, 13 November 1913 – 20 July 1981) was a

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novelist and journalist. Dimitris Hatzis plaque in Budapest13

Hatzis was born in

Ioannina Ioannina ( el, Ιωάννινα ' ), often called Yannena ( ' ) within Greece, is the capital and largest city of the Ioannina regional unit and of Epirus, an administrative region in north-western Greece. According to the 2011 census, the c ...

(

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) northwestern Greece, the son of the author and journalist,

Georgios Hatzis Georgios Hatzis ( el, Γεώργιος Χατζής; 1881–1930), also known under the pen name Pelleren, was a Greek author and journalist. Hatzis was born in Ioannina, northwestern Greece, when the city was still part of the Janina Vilayet ...

. He graduated from the Zosimaia school in his home land. In 1930, after the death of his father, he succeeded him as director of the newspaper ''Epirus''. In 1932-1934 he was influenced by

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ideologies and joined the

Communist Party of Greece The Communist Party of Greece ( el, Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας, ''Kommounistikó Kómma Elládas'', KKE) is a political party in Greece. Founded in 1918 as the Socialist Labour Party of Greece and adopted its curren ...

. In 1936 he was arrested by the regime of

Ioannis Metaxas Ioannis Metaxas (; el, Ιωάννης Μεταξάς; 12th April 187129th January 1941) was a Greek military officer and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Greece from 1936 until his death in 1941. He governed constitutionally for t ...

for communist activity. Hatzis got involved in the

Greek Civil War The Greek Civil War ( el, ο Eμφύλιος �όλεμος ''o Emfýlios'' 'Pólemos'' "the Civil War") took place from 1946 to 1949. It was mainly fought against the established Kingdom of Greece, which was supported by the United Kingdom ...

(1946-1949), where he joined the

Democratic Army of Greece The Democratic Army of Greece (DAG; el, Δημοκρατικός Στρατός Ελλάδας - ΔΣΕ, Dimokratikós Stratós Elládas - DSE) was the army founded by the Communist Party of Greece during the Greek Civil War (1946–1949). At ...

(DSE). As a result, following the Left's defeat, he went into exile and until the legalization of the Greek Communist Party in 1975, he lived in various

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in Eastern Europe. In 1962 Hatzis took up a position at the Byzantine Studies Department at the University of Budapest. There he taught Greek and modern Greek literature. He also worked on the translation and anthology of a wealth of texts in the Hungarian language. Through this work, Hatzis established Greek Studies in Hungary and contributed to the spread of Greek culture. Famous works of Hatzis include: *''Το τέλος της μικρής μας πόλης'' (The end of our small town), 1960. *''Ανυπεράσπιστοι'' (Defenceless), 1966. *''Το Διπλό Βιβλίο'' (The double book), 1976, considered as one of the most important novels in post-war Greek literature. *''Σπουδές'' (Studies), 1976.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hatzis, Dimitrios 1913 births 1981 deaths Writers from Ioannina Communist Party of Greece politicians Greek journalists Greek male poets 20th-century Greek novelists 20th-century Greek poets Zosimaia School alumni National Liberation Front (Greece) members Democratic Army of Greece personnel Exiles of the Greek Civil War Greek prisoners and detainees Greek expatriates in Hungary 20th-century journalists Greek Byzantinists Scholars of Byzantine literature