1946, Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1st Greek Edition, N. Simiriotis

Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Translated by Nikos Simiriotis

Published by I Phili tou Vivliou in Athens in 1946

Original Soft Binding

440 Pages 

First Greek Edition 

22 cm x 15 cm

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, known for his concise prose and adventurous lifestyle. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, he served as an ambulance driver in World War I and was wounded in Italy. His experiences shaped much of his writing. In the 1920s, he became part of the “Lost Generation” in Paris, where he wrote The Sun Also Rises (1926). His other famous works include A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the last of which won him the Pulitzer Prize. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway’s writing style, characterized by short sentences and understated themes, influenced generations of writers. He lived in various places, including Cuba, Spain, and Africa, pursuing big-game hunting, deep-sea fishing, and war reporting. Struggling with depression and illness in later years, he died by suicide in 1961.

Nikos Sp. Simiriotis (1911 – 1996) was a Greek poet, multilingual translator and civil engineer. He was born in Smyrna in 1911 and was the nephew of Angelos and George Simeriotis.  Alongside his professional career as civil engineer, he was involved in painting, sculpture, music and poetry. Before even studying, from 1928, Simiriotis published his poems in literary magazines of the time. In addition, knowing seven European languages, he was able to study many foreign literary works from the original, several of which he translated into Greek. Among these translations stand out the most notable poems of Poe (first Greek edition in 1944), Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (first Greek edition in 1946), Lorca’s poems (Greek edition 1964) as well as Chinese poetry.