Editing Constantine P. Cavafy (section)

==In popular culture==
===In film===
* Scottish songwriter [[Donovan]] featured one of Cavafy's poems in his 1970 film ''[[There Is an Ocean]]''.{{cn|date=March 2024}} 
* ''[[Cavafy (film)|Cavafy]]'', originally titled ''Kavafis'',<ref name=film>{{imdb title|0115849|Cavafy}}</ref> is a 1996 award-winning film directed by [[Yannis Smaragdis]] based on the life of the poet, starring [[Dimitris Kataleifos|Dimitris Katalifos]] and with music by [[Vangelis]].<ref name=alex>{{cite web | title=Alexandros Film | website=Alexandros Film | url=https://www.alexandrosfilm.com/site/movie.php?movie=5 | access-date=6 March 2024}}</ref> 
* Greek director Stelios Haralambopoulos's 2006 documentary ''The Night Fernando Pessoa Met Constantine Cavafy'' imagined Cavafy met with Portuguese poet [[Fernando Pessoa]] on a transatlantic ocean liner.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mubi.com/films/the-night-fernando-pessoa-met-constantine-cavafy|title=The Night Fernando Pessoa Met Constantine Cavafy|first=Stelios|last=Haralambopoulos|access-date= 11 May 2022}}</ref>

===Literature===
* C. P. Cavafy appears as a character in the ''[[Alexandria Quartet]]'' of [[Lawrence Durrell]].{{cn|date=March 2024}}  
* The American poet [[Mark Doty]]'s book ''My Alexandria'' uses the place and imagery of Cavafy to create a comparable contemporary landscape.{{cn|date=March 2024}}
* The [[Nobel Prize]]–winning Turkish novelist [[Orhan Pamuk]], in an extended essay published in ''[[The New York Times]]'', writes about how Cavafy's poetry, particularly his poem "[[The City (poem)|The City]]", has changed the way Pamuk looks at, and thinks about, the city of [[Istanbul]], a city that remains central to Pamuk's own writing.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/books/review/other-countries-other-shores.html|title=Other Countries, Other Shores|first=Orhan|last=Pamuk|date= 19 December 2013|access-date= 28 January 2018|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> 

===Songs===
* The [[Weddings Parties Anything]] song "The Afternoon Sun" is based on the Cavafy poem of the same title.{{cn|date=March 2024}}
* The Canadian poet and singer-songwriter [[Leonard Cohen]] transformed Cavafy's poem "[[The God Abandons Antony]]", based on Mark Antony's loss of the city of Alexandria and his empire, into "Alexandra Leaving", a song around lost love.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leonardcohensite.com/10newsongs/alexandra_leaving.htm|title=Alexandra Leaving|website=www.leonardcohensite.com|access-date=28 January 2018|archive-date=21 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190521204608/https://www.leonardcohensite.com/10newsongs/alexandra_leaving.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Other references===
* [[Frank H. T. Rhodes]]' last commencement speech given at [[Cornell University]] in 1995 was based on Cavafy's poem "Ithaca".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Rhodes|first1=Frank H. T.|title=Commencement Address 1995|url=http://labs.plantbio.cornell.edu/wayne/pdfs/Ithaka.pdf|access-date=29 August 2016}}</ref>