Pavlos Nirvanas (the pseudonym of Petros K. Apostolidi) was born in 1866 in Russia. His father was from Skopelos and mother from Chios. He studied at the University Athens Medical School and in 1890 was commissioned into the Navy from which he resigned in 1922 with the rank of chief general doctor. He was married twice and acquired five children.
His first poetic collection was published in 1884 and he then began to publish a column in newspapers. From then onwards he produced all the types of written reason, poems, short stories, fiction novels, essays, columns, cinematographic scripts. He also translated poems and essays of Hamsoun and Plato. He maintained correspondence with the more important intellectual persons of the period and contributed to the election of younger men of literature.
For his work he was honoured in 1923 with the Distinction of Letters and Arts and in 1928 became a member of the Athen's Academy.
He died from bronchopneumonia in Athens in 1937.
His house in Skopelos town has been restored and is being created as a new museum.
Pablo’s bar on the Paralea above the restaurant ‘Ta Kimata’ is named in his honour.