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Andreas Karkavitsas orCarcavitsas (Greek: Ανδρέας Καρκαβίτσας;Lechaina, 1866 –Marousi, October 10, 1922) was aGreek novelist. He was anaturalist, likeAlexandros Papadiamantis.

He was born in 1866 in the north-west Peloponnese, in the town ofLechaina inElis. He studied medicine. As an army doctor, he travelled across a great range of villages and settlements, from which he recorded traditions and legends. He died on October 10, 1922, oflaryngeal cancer. Several streets in Greece have been named after him, for instance inPyrgos.

Karkavitsas wrote in the European tradition of naturalism (exemplified byÉmile Zola), which does not shrink from portraying the seamier parts of life among humble people, rather than romanticising or embellishing reality. He was a folklorist with a gift for spinning tales full of authentic details of simple people's lives, local customs, dialects and folktales, as well as psychological insights about them. He was more successful as a short-story and novella writer. "The Beggar" is a novella about con-men, violence and the grotesque practices of professional beggars (including purposely maiming children to turn them into profitable objects of pity). "Words from the prow" is about the lives of seafarers, fishermen and sponge-divers, full of arcane details of their craft as well as folk-tale-inflected plots of tragedy, shipwreck, hands lost at sea, murder, superstition and the supernatural, as well as the joys of making a living off the sea.

• The Beggar, tr. W. F. Wyatt (1982)

• Encyclopædia Britannicaonline

• Works by Andreas Karkavitsas atProject Gutenberg
• Works by or about Andreas Karkavitsas at theInternet Archive
• Works by Andreas Karkavitsas atLibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

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