Rodis Kanakaris-Roufos was a Greek

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 diplomat

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 and writer

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Biography

He was the son of Loukas Kanakaris-Roufos

Loukas Kanakaris-Roufos

Loukas Kanakaris-Roufos was a Greek politician.He was the son of Athanasios Kanakaris-Roufos and a member of the Rouphos family. In the 1905 elections he became a member of the Greek Parliament, but failed to be re-elected in 1906. In 1908 however he succeeded his brother Ioannis Roufos in his...

 and a member of the Rouphos family that descended from Sicily

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 and the rest of southern Italy

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 and were politicians from Patras and Achaea. He studied law at the University of Athens in 1949 and also became a foreign minister. He made diplomatic representations in Vienna

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 in Nicosia

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 and in Paris. He took part in the Greek resistance but in 1967 with the arrival of the Regime of the Colonels that took power until 1974, Rodis Kanakaris lost his place.

He had been awarded the Twelve Awards in which along with the National Novel Awards. After his novel Poreia sto skotadi (Πορεία στο σκοτάδι), he was awarded the Kostas Ouranis

Kostas Ouranis

-Life:Ouranis was born in Istanbul in 1890 to Nikolaos Niarchos and Angeliki Yannousi from Leonidio, Arcadia, where he grew up and went to elementary school. He went to high school in Nafplion and then Istanbul, where he graduated...

 Award.

He died in Kolonaki

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 in Athens

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in 1972 and had two sons, including Loukas (1949- ) who became a lawyer, and Athanassios (1952- ) who is a musician.