Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography (G. Jusdanis and P. Jeffreys, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025) has been released recently. Its review in the TLS starts with:
Constantine Petrou Cavafy (1863–1933): a poet of obscure history and an eroticism so gentle, it seems odd to call it eroticism at all. A civil servant in the irrigation department of the city of Alexandria. A descendant of an aristocratic family that lost its way. A gay man in a cosmopolitan city away from the cultural centres of the world. The last surviving son of Constantinopolitan immigrants. A teenage refugee from the Anglo-Egyptian War. The most important Greek-language poet of the twentieth century. A major literary figure – an influence on writers around the world, and available in so many languages and editions that it is hard to keep up.