"Year of K.P. Cavafy" proclaims it 2013 the Ministry of Education, of religion, of Culture and Sports on the occasion of the anniversary of 150 years since the birth of the leading poet.

Constantine Cavafy (1863 – 1933) is one of the most important Greek poets of modern Greek literature. His poetry is characterized by a strong symbolic tendency and is combined with a simple but timelessly relevant speech.

The ironic mood, what has been called Cavafian irony, combined with the tragedy of reality and became the point of reference for many later poets.

His work has been the subject of long-standing study around the world and his poems have been translated into French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and many other languages.

The central planning of the action program will be carried out by the General Directorate of Contemporary Culture, the Directorate of Letters and the National Book Centre (E.KE.BI ) and will collaborate with the Onassis Foundation (House of Letters and Arts) which has under its jurisdiction the complete record of the poet, foreign embassies in Greece, the Chairs of Modern Greek Language and Culture of the Universities abroad where Cavafy is taught, the Library of Alexandria, the Hellenic Foundation of Culture and the Hellenic Foundation in Alexandria, the European Cultural Center of Delphi, literary societies and other bodies.