Elli Alexiou
Greek author, playwright and journalist
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Biography
The daughter of a printer and publisher, Alexiou was born in Heraklion, Ottoman Crete.[2] She taught French in a high school,[3] and was politically active, joining the Communist Party in 1928 and working with the National Liberation Front resistance during World War II.[2] After the war, she received a scholarship from the French government and studied in Paris.[2] She was stripped of Greek citizenship in 1950, living as an exile until it was restored in 1965.[2]
Alexiou wrote short stories and novels about her experience as a school teacher and her life as a political exile in Hungary and Romania.[2] Her sister Galatea was the first wife of novelist Nikos Kazantzakis.[2][3]
She died in Athens.
Works
- Third Christian Girls School (1934)
- Lumpen (1940)
- Tributaries (1956)
- Bent on Greatness (1966)
- The Dominant (1972)
- Demolished Mansions (1977)
- Royal Oak (1983)
