John Kittmer is a former British ambassador to Greece and chairs The Anglo-Hellenic League. He contributed the introduction to David Harsent's A Broken Man in Flower: versions of Yannis Ritsos (Bloodaxe Books, 2023). He has degrees in classics and modern Greek, and wrote a prize-winning PhD thesis on Yannis Ritsos. He is preparing a previously unpublished manuscript by Ritsos for publication.
