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'''Georgios Vizyinos''' (alternative spelling Vizyenos) was a [[Greeks|Greek]] prose writer and poet, one of the most significant figures of Greek literature.

Vizyinos was born in [[Vizyi]], [[Eastern Thrace]] in [[1849]]. He was sent at a young age by his parents to [[Constantinople]] to become a clothesmaker but instead chose to study first religion and later literature.

In [[1873]], he published his first collection of poems "Ποιητικά πρωτόλεια". The following year, Vizyinos published his epic poem "Codrus". His third collection was originally entitled "Ares-Mares-Koukounares" but later re-titled "Breezes of the [[Bosphorus]]". All three works received awards for poetry.

In [[1883]], Vizyinos started writing in prose. In a span of merely fifteen months ([[1883]] - [[1884]]) he wrote and published five short novels in the magazine Hestia, thus opening the way for a new literary form and at the same time demonstrating unique thematic, narrative and structural inventiveness. The short stories "Who was my Brother’s Murderer?", "The only Voyage of his Life", "The Consequences of an Old Story" and "Moskov-Selim" deal with the controversial subject of relations and the terms of coexistence among [[Greeks]], Slavs and Turks in the Balkans, as well as the dialogue between the Greeks of [[Greece]] and the Greeks of the Ottoman Empire and the Diaspora, and also between Europe and modern and ancient Hellenism. The symbolic function of language and the self-referring function of literature are reflected mainly in the short stories "Between [[Piraeus]] and Naples" and "The only Voyage of his Life".

Vizyinos was forced to work as a high school teacher following the death of his chief mentor, Georgios Zarifis in [[1884]].

In [[1892]], he was stricken with mental illness and was admitted to an asylum. He died four years later (April [[1896]]).

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 In [[1892]], he was stricken with mental illness and was admitted to Dromokaitios asylum, near [[Athens]]. He died there four years later on [[April 15]], [[1896]].
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−	In [[1892]], he was stricken with mental illness and was admitted to an asylum. He died four years later ([[April 15]], [[1896]]).	+	In [[1892]], he was stricken with mental illness and was admitted to Dromokaitios asylum, near [[Athens]]. He died there four years later on [[April 15]], [[1896]].

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 '''Georgios Vizyinos''' (alternative spelling Vizyenos) was a [[Greeks|Greek]] prose writer and poet, one of the most significant figures of Greek literature.
-Vizyinos was born in [[Vizyi]], [[Eastern Thrace]] on [[March 8]], [[1849]]. He was sent at a young age by his parents to [[Constantinople]] to become a clothesmaker but instead chose to study first religion and later literature.
+Vizyinos was born Georgios Syrmas in [[Vizyi]], [[Eastern Thrace]], on [[March 8]], [[1849]]. He was sent at a young age by his parents to [[Constantinople]] to become a clothesmaker but instead chose to study first religion and later literature.
 In [[1873]], he published his first collection of poems "Ποιητικά πρωτόλεια". The following year, Vizyinos published his epic poem "Codrus". His third collection was originally entitled "Ares-Mares-Koukounares" but later re-titled "Breezes of the [[Bosphorus]]". All three works received awards for poetry.

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−	In [[1892]], he was stricken with mental illness and was admitted to an asylum. He died four years later (April [[1896]]).	+	In [[1892]], he was stricken with mental illness and was admitted to an asylum. He died four years later ([[April 15]], [[1896]]).

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