1948, John Steinbeck, Kosmas Politis (Trl.), The Grapes of Wrath, First Greek Edition, Nobel Laureate

John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath

Translated by Kosmas Politis

Published by K M in Athens in 1948

Original Soft Binding

497 Pages 

First Greek Edition thus

22 cm x 15 cm

John Ernst Steinbeck (1902 – 1968) was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception”. He has been called “a giant of American letters.” During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multigenerational epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck’s masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. By the 75th anniversary of its publishing date, it had sold 14 million copies.

Kosmas Politis (real name: Paraskevas Taveloudis, 1888 – 1974) was a Greek writer, one of the most important prose writers of the generation of the ’30s. His most characteristic works are the novels Eroïca (1938) and At Hadjifragkou (1962). Politis was also an important translator, as he rendered into Greek the works of William Shakespeare, Henry Miller, Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Pearl Buck and others.