Alexandros Papadiamantis (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος Παπαδιαμάντης) was an influential Greek novelist, short-story writer, and poet born on March 4, 1851, on the island of Skiathos in the western part of the Aegean Sea¹. He moved to Athens as a young man to complete his high school studies and enrolled at the School of Philosophy of the University of Athens but never completed his studies due to economic difficulties¹. He supported himself by writing throughout his adult life, anything from journalism and short stories to several serialized novels¹. Papadiamantis is best remembered for his scores of short stories that provide lucid and lyrical portraits of country life in Skiathos or urban life in the poorer neighborhoods of Athens, with frequent flashes of deep psychological insight¹. He died of pneumonia on January 3, 1911, in Skiathos¹.
Isn't short stories as close as one can get from thedailywtf for someone in the 19 century? That was clearly @apapadimoulis , and he invented this pneumonia to cover his age, highlander style
