Pavlos Nirvanas

Biography

The literary pseudonym Pavlos Nirvanas is known to the writer Petros K. Apostolidis. His father, merchant Konstantinos Apostolou Koumiotis, was from Skopelos and his mother, Marietta Ioannou Ralli, from Chios. He was born in Mariupol, Russian Empire in 1866 and died in Athens on November 28, 1937. Pavlos Nirvanas published many poetry collections and published many vignettes in newspapers. He maintained close ties with several writers of his time and contributed to the emergence of younger writ…