| LC control no. | n 86030387 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Psychountakēs, Giōrgos |
| Variant(s) | Psychountakēs, Geōrgios Psychoundakis, George Ψυχουντάκης, Γιώργος Ψυχουντάκης, Γεώργιος |
| Located | Crete (Greece) |
| Birth date | 1920-11-03 |
| Death date | 2006-01-29 |
| Place of birth | Asē Gōnia (Greece) |
| Place of death | Chania (Greece) |
| Field of activity | World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Greece--Crete |
| Special note | Non-Latin script references not evaluated |
| Found in | His Ho Krētikos mantatophoros, c1986: t.p. (Γιώργου Ψυχουντάκη = Giōrgou Psychountakē) Homērou Iliada, 1995: t.p. (Γεώργιος Ψυχουντάκης = Geōrgios Psychountakēs) The Cretan runner, 2015: ECIP t.p. (George Psychoundakis) LC database, 2015-04-09 (hdg.: Psychoundakis, George, 1920- ) Telegraph (online), viewed May 10, 2016 (in obituary dated Feb. 18, 2006: George Psychoundakis; b. Nov. 3, 1920, Asi Gonia, Crete; d. Jan. 29 [2006], Canea, Crete, aged 85; best known for his extraordinary account of clandestine life in the Resistance after the German occupation of his island in 1941; the book appeared first in English, translated by Patrick Leigh Fermor, as The Cretan runner in 1955; published in Hungarian in 1981, and in Greek in 1986; Psychoundakis translated Homer from other prose translations into Cretan verse) |
| Associated language | gre |
| Invalid LCCN | n 2015022111 |
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