M. Karagatsis

Who was M. Karagatsis?

M. Karagatsis was the pen name of the important modern Greek novelist, journalist, critic and playwright Dimitris Rodopoulos. The pen name M. Karagatsis is the name the novelist is known with. The letter "M." comes from Mitya, which is the Russian diminutive of Dimitris. The word "Karagatsis" comes from the tree "Karagatsi" under the shadow of which he used to write as a young writer.

Karagatsis was born in Athens, grew up in Larissa and Thessaloniki, and studied law in France. He died in Athens.