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Take care, master!
The writer and poet Yórgos Ioánnou was, first and foremost, an educator. His long years as a teacher—in the noblest sense of the term—even took him to Tríkala between 1956 and 1957, where he taught classical and modern literature at a private high school in this historic city in Thessaly. He has thus left us a moving account, drawn from his own experience as a young teacher during that period.
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In Tríkala, Cramped!
The Trikala region of western Thessaly—where I come from—and above all its eponymous capital, are renowned for their composers and virtuosos of Greek popular music. This music is often broadly categorized under the umbrella of songs belonging, directly or indirectly, to the Rebetiko genre—a wide-ranging musical form associated with the cultural expression of the working classes and the largely urban marginalized, emerging in the early 20th century.
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Yórgos Ioánnou and his legacy
Yorgos Ioánnou—originally a pseudonym, later the legally adopted name of Georgios Sorolópis—was a distinguished and worthy writer of contemporary Greece. He was born in Thessaloniki in 1927 into a family of Greek refugees from Eastern Thrace, a region that had come under the control of the new Turkish state in 1923 following the Greco-Turkish War in Asia Minor (1919-1922), a conflict Greece lost.