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Alkiviadis Margaritis

Journaist, Educator
He was born on 4.7.1908. He studied law and literature at Athens University. He also received a French Language Teacher diploma from the Ministry of Education. At the time of Theodoros Pagkalos dictatorship, he founded, together with anti-Venizelist students groups, the National Salvation Association, a group against dictator Pagkalos. He taught French and Greek language and literature at private schools. In the inter-war period he collaborated with the newspapers Ellinikos Tachydromos, Chronika, Eleftheron Vima, Athinaika Nea and Patris, where he wrote articles on current affairs; he was also chief editor of the Students Journal of K. Bebelis. During the dictatorship of the Colonels, Vima newspaper published interviews he had taken from exiled university professors, while in the period 1970-1998 he held a theater critic column in Ta Nea newspaper. He served as president of the Greek Center of the International Theater Institute, member of the Hellenic Red Cross, member of the Theater and Music Critics Association and the International Association of Theater Critics, as well as founding member of Art Theater Friends. He was also honorary Vice-President of The Greek Press Abroad Union, member of the International Union of Francophone Press (L' Union Internationale de la Presse Francophone), member of the United National Resistance Movement and member of the Greek department of Société Européenne de Culture (Venice). The French government had honored him with the title of Commandeur de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques. He died in November 2004 in Athens. He served as president of GNO’s Artistic Committee for a period of six years (1974/80).