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Charikleia Theodora Cavafy (1896-1983) was C. P. Cavafy’s niece, the daughter of his brother Aristeidis and Maria Vourou. She was born in Alexandria (Egypt), where she married Geronimo Valieri in 1923. Until that year, she used to meet with the poet frequently. During the 1923-1947 period she travelled to Europe with her husband, her daughter and her mother. From 1957 until the end of her life she lived permanently on the island of Lesbos (Greece).

George A. Valassopoulo (1890-1972) was born in Alexandria (Egypt) and was the son of the distinguished doctor Aristeidis Valassopoulo. He studied at King’s College, Cambridge, and worked as a lawyer. He was a friend of E. M. Forster and C. P. Cavafy. He translated a significant part of Cavafy’s poems into English.

Marios Vaïanos (1905?-1975) spent his childhood on the island of Chios (Greece) but graduated from secondary school in Piraeus. He was an intellectual and a journalist and, during his youth, he composed poems which he published in various journals. He was also the publisher of journals, including Nea Techni, the first ever journal to publish a special issue dedicated to Cavafy and his work. After the war he founded the “Intellectual Collaboration Agency”, a sui generis literary salon which attracted authors, scholars and artists. The Agency organised an exhibition of Cavafy’s memorabilia in 1964.

Eftychios Vagionakis founded and managed a well-known publishing house and bookshop in Athens (Greece).

Georgios Vafopoulos (1903-1996) finished high school in Thessaloniki (Greece) and first published his poems in journals in 1921. Three years later he took over the management of the journal Makedonika Grammata. He founded the Municipal Library of Thessaloniki in 1938, becoming its director until 1963. He wrote poetry and prose.

Georgios V. Tsokopoulos (1871-1923) was born in Athens (Greece) and worked as a journalist. He collaborated with many newspapers and journals published in Athens. He was the director of Omonoia of Alexandria (Egypt) and of Estia in Athens. He wrote plays (romantic comedies, dramas and political satires) and librettos as well as prose (novels, short stories, and children’s literature). In Alexandria he published the journal Eikonografimenon Aigyptiakon Imerologion in the first volume of which (1894) four poems by Cavafy were included. He was the director of the Mousiki Efimeris during its second period of publication (1896).

Constantine A. Trypanis was born in 1909 on the island of Chios (Greece), where he finished school. He studied Classics at the Universities of Athens, Berlin and Munich. He served as professor with the Universities of Athens (1939-1945), Oxford (1947-1968), and Chicago (1968-1974). He returned to Greece in 1974. He was elected in the Academy of Athens and served as Minister of Culture (1974-1977). He authored scientific studies that span the whole spectrum of Greek philology, from antiquity to modern times, while he published poetry collections in English and Greek. He died in Athens (Greece) in 1993.