Zoumbos Sotiris
Studies Personal exhibitions (national or international) / Artwork Professional activity Other activities Rewards - Distinctions
1901
Year of death:1981
Place of birth:Ioannina
Studies
Zosimaia School of Ioannina
Personal exhibitions (national or international) / Artwork
Literary man, poet and jourmalist. Interesting is his fiction and poetic work.
Poetry: “Hymn to Souli”, “Hymn to Parga”, “The Epic of the City of Ioannina”, etc.
His collected works were published in 1985.
However, an important part of his novels and poems were destroyed by fire during the burning of the village Aspraggeloi by the German conquerors in 1943.
Professional activity
Director of the Press Office of the General Directorate of Epirus; head of the Office from 1930 until his retirement.
After the Minor Asia Catastrophe, he worked in Ioannina as correspondent of the Athens’ newspapers and as editor of the newpapers “Kyrix”, Ipirotiki Icho”, “Eleftheria”, “Ipiros” and “Ipirotikos Agon”.
Other activities
Curator of the Municipal Museum of Ioannina.
Co-editor of the magazine “Anagennisis”.
Rewards - Distinctions
He received honorary distinctions from the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Municipality of Ioannina.
