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Greek Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Greece or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A *Aganice Ainianos (1838–1892), poet *Elli Alexiou (1894–1988), novelist, short story writer, playwright, journalist * Loula Anagnostaki (1930–2017), playwright *Marie Aspioti (1909–2000), Corfiote writer, playwright, poet, publisher, writing in English and Greek B *Olga Broumas (born 1949), English-language poet, living in the United States D * Emilia Dafni (1881–1941), poet, novelist *Penelope Delta (1874–1941), novelist, children's writer * Constance Dima (born 1948), poet, novelist, essayist, sometimes writing in French *Kiki Dimoula (1931–2020), poet * Maro Douka (born 1947), novelist, short story writer, playwright, memoirist F * Justine Frangouli-Argyris (born 1959), journalist, non-fiction writer, living in Canada G * Rhea Galanaki (born 1947), novelist * Evi Gkotzaridis, historian, author of ''Trials of Irish History'' (2007) *Katerina G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the Geography of Greece, mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, featuring List of islands of Greece, thousands of islands. The country consists of nine Geographic regions of Greece, traditional geographic regions, and has a population of approximately 10.4 million. Athens is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras. Greece is considered the cradle of Western culture, Western civilization, being the birthplace of Athenian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Huffington Post
''HuffPost'' (formerly ''The Huffington Post'' until 2017 and sometimes abbreviated ''HuffPo'') is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions. The site offers news, satire, blogs, and original content, and covers politics, business, entertainment, environment, technology, popular media, lifestyle, culture, comedy, healthy living, women's interests, and local news featuring columnists. It was created to provide a progressive alternative to the conservative news websites such as the Drudge Report. The site offers content posted directly on the site as well as user-generated content via video blogging, audio, and photo. In 2012, the website became the first commercially run United States digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize. Founded by Andrew Breitbart, Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti, the site was launched on May 9, 2005 as a counterpart to the Drudge Report. In March 2011, it was acquired by AOL for US$315& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katina Papa
Katina Papa ( el, Κατίνα Παπά; 1903–1959) was a Greek writer. She became well known for her poetry and novels. Life She was born in the village of Janicat in the Ottoman Empire, today part of the Finiq municipality in southern Albania. Her family had to find refuge in the nearby island of Corfu because her father was accused by the local Ottoman authorities of participating in a local revolt. Katina Papa studied at the University of Athens and then became a teacher. Her writing is associated with her experiences as a teacher. Her first book ''Stin sikaminia apo kato'' (Under the Mulberry Tree) received the Academy of Athens award. Papa's main characters are mainly girls, such as Tasoula (in a novel with the same title), a servant girl from Corfu, where she dreams to live with her godfather in Athens. She writes to him about her dreams. He answers, but the girl cannot manage to open the letter, fearing that the answer might be negative. The distinguished author Niko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Moutzan-Martinegou
Elizabeth Moutzan-Martinegou (October 1801-November 1832), was a Greek writer from Zakynthos. She has been called the first female writer in modern Greece. She wrote poetry, more than fifteen plays, and works on economics and poetic theory, as well as translating works of classical literature including the Odyssey and Aeschylus' tragedy Prometheus Bound, but her most famous work is her autobiography An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life. It is a form of biography. Definition The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English peri .... References * My Story, Moutzan-Martinengou, Elisavet. Published by University of Georgia Press, Baltimore, 1989 1801 births 1832 deaths 19th-century Greek writers Greek women writers 19th-century women writers {{greece-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doula Mouriki
Doula Mouriki ( el, Ντούλα Μουρίκη, 1934–1991) was a Greek Byzantinologist and art historian. She made important contributions to the study of Byzantine art in Greece. Education Doula Mouriki was born in 1934 at Ampelokepi (near Aigio). She earned degrees in history and archaeology in 1956 from the University of Athens. From 1956 to 1957, she received a scholarship to visit the École pratique des hautes études and the Collège de France, where she studied under André Grabar and Paul Lemerle. Afterwards, she returned to the University of Athens to earn a degree in French literature in 1958. In the early 1960s, Mouriki was first hired as a temporary staff member by the National Archaeological Museum of Athens and shortly thereafter as a principal research assistant under Manolis Hatzidakis at the Byzantine and Christian Museum. She later attended Princeton University, studying with Kurt Weitzmann. At Princeton, Mouriki earned an MFA in 1968 and a PhD in 1970, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rena Molho
Rena Molho (born 1946) is a Greek historian who focuses on the different aspects of Ottoman and Greek Jewish history and culture and more specifically that of the Jews of Salonika. Early life and education She was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, the original and official name of Salonika. Molho studied European history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and received a Doctor of Philosophy with distinctions from the University of Strasbourg. Career She has taken part in many symposiums, television and radio programs, in Greece and abroad and has published her research in Greek and international scientific books, encyclopedias and journals. Her research has been supported with grants by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture in New York City and by the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in Los Angeles. In 1996, she acted as senior interviewer and coordinator in Greece for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antigone Metaxa-Krontera
Antigone Metaxa-Krontera ( el, Αντιγόνη Μεταξά-Κροντηρά; 1905–1971) was a Greek writer of children's literature. She used the pseudonym, Theia Lena (Θεία Λένα, "Aunt Lena"). She also was the founder of Greece's first children's theater. She studied theatre and first worked as an actress. In 1932, she founded the first Greek children's theatre. During the late 1930s, she established the first weekly radio programs for children in Greece. Later she performed on television, hosting a show called ''Kalispera paidakia'' (Good evening, children). She published around 200 children's books, including 50 that she wrote herself. She published a children's encyclopedia, the first published in Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor .... She als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melinno
Melinno ( grc, Μελιννῶ) was a Greek lyric poet. She is known from a single surviving poem, known as the "Ode to Rome". The poem survives in a quotation by the fifth century AD author Stobaeus, who included it in a compilation of poems on manliness. It was apparently included in this collection by mistake, as Stobaeus misinterpreted the word ρώμα in the first line as meaning "strength", rather than being the Greek name for the city of Rome. Nothing is known of Melinno or her life. Scholars have suggested dates ranging from the third century BC to the second century AD. C. M. Bowra argued based on the content of the poem attributed to her that the first half of the second century BC was likely; and most scholars agree with a date in the republican period. The fact that she wrote a poem about the power of Rome without any mention of the emperor suggests that she was writing before the beginning of the principate. Literary parallels have been suggested between Melinno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Mastoraki
Jenny Mastoraki (; born 1949) is a Greek poet and translator. She read Philology at the University of Athens. She belongs to the Genia tou 70, a group of Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 and at the first years of the Metapolitefsi. Poetry * ''Διόδια'' (Tolls), 1972 * ''Το σόι'' (The kin), 1978 * ''Ιστορίες για τα βαθιά'' (Tales of the deep), 1983 * ''Μ' ένα στεφάνι φως'' (With a garland of light), 1989 Selected translations * Salinger, J. D., ''Ο φύλακας στη σίκαλη'' (The Catcher in the Rye), 1978Dates of the first publication of the Greek translation * McCullers, Carson, ''Πρόσκληση σε γάμο'' (The Member of the Wedding), 1981 * Canetti, Elias, ''Η τύφλωση'' (Die Blendung), 1985 * Böll, Heinrich, ''Οι απόψεις ενός κλόουν'' (Ansichten eines Clowns), 1986 * Highet, Gilbert, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angeliki Laiou
Angeliki E. Laiou ( el, Αγγελική Λαΐου; Athens, 6 April 1941 – Boston, 11 December 2008) was a Greek-American Byzantinist and politician. She taught at the University of Louisiana, Harvard University, Brandeis University, and Rutgers University. She was Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Studies at Harvard from 1981 until her death. From 2000 to 2002, she was also a member of the Hellenic Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK): she served as Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs for six months in 2000. Early life and education Laiou was born in Athens on 6 April 1941 to a Pontic family, refugees from the Black Sea coast of modern Turkey. She studied at the Athens College and continued her studies in the Philosophy School of the University of Athens (1958–59), where she studied under the Greek Byzantinist Dionysios Zakythinos, who awakened her interest in the Byzantine Empire. She moved to Brandeis University from where she graduated with her BA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Laina
Maria Laina ( el, Μαρία Λαϊνά; 1947 – 27 December 2023) was a Greek poet. She studied Law at the University of Athens, but she did not practice it, and worked instead as a translator, critic, screenwriter, copy editor, professor of Greek, and radio producer. Laina belonged to the so-called Genia tou '70 (i.e. '70's Generation), which is a literary term referring to Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 and at the first years of the Metapolitefsi. Laina was awarded the State Prize for Poetry for her collection ''Rodinos Fovos'' (Ρόδινος φόβος) in 1993, and the Cavafy Prize together with Giorgos Markopoulos in 1996. Her poetry has been translated into English, French, and Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexiad
The ''Alexiad'' ( el, Ἀλεξιάς, Alexias) is a medieval historical and biographical text written around the year 1148, by the Byzantine princess Anna Komnene, daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. It was written in a form of artificial Attic Greek. Anna described the political and military history of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of her father, thus providing a significant account on the Byzantium of the High Middle Ages. Among other topics, the ''Alexiad'' documents the Byzantine Empire's interaction with the Crusades and highlights the conflicting perceptions of the East and West in the early 12th century. It does not mention the schism of 1054 – a topic which is very common in contemporary writing. Nevertheless it successfully documents firsthand the decline of Byzantine cultural influence in both eastern and western Europe, particularly in the West's increasing involvement in its geographic sphere. Structure The book is divided into 15 books and a prologue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
