This is a list of women writers who were born in

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 ...

or whose writings are closely associated with that country.

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Aganice Ainianos Aganice Ainianos ( el, Αγανίκη Αινιάνος Μαζαράκη; 1838–1892) was a Greek poet. Biography Ainianos was born in Athens in 1838. Her father was the Greek politician (1788–1848), a founder of the secret society Filiki Eteria ...

(1838–1892), poet *

Elli Alexiou Elli Alexiou (sometimes Ellē; – 1986) was a Greek author, playwright and journalist. The daughter of a printer and publisher, Alexiou was born in Heraklion, Crete. She taught French in a high school, and was politically active, joining the ...

(1894–1988), novelist, short story writer, playwright, journalist * Loula Anagnostaki (1930–2017), playwright *

Marie Aspioti Maria-Aspasia (Marie) Aspioti ( el, Μαρία-Ασπασία Ασπιώτη; 29 September 1909 – 25 May 2000), was a distinguished Corfiote writer, playwright, poet, magazine publisher and cultural figure who influenced the literary and cultur ...

(1909–2000), Corfiote writer, playwright, poet, publisher, writing in English and Greek

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Olga Broumas Olga Broumas (born 6 May 1949, Hermoupolis) is a Greek poet, resident in the United States. She has been Poet-in-Residence and Director of Creative Writing at Brandeis University since 1995. Biography Born and raised on the island of Syros, Brouma ...

(born 1949), English-language poet, living in the United States

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* Emilia Dafni (1881–1941), poet, novelist *

Penelope Delta Penelope Delta (; 1874, Alexandria, Khedivate of Egypt – 2 May 1941, Athens, Greece) was a Greek author. She is widely celebrated for her contributions to the field of children's literature. Her historical novels have been widely read and hav ...

(1874–1941), novelist, children's writer * Constance Dima (born 1948), poet, novelist, essayist, sometimes writing in French *

Kiki Dimoula Vasiliki “Kiki” Dimoula (née Radou; el, Κική Δημουλά; 6 June 1931 – 22 February 2020) was a Greek poet. She was the first female poet ever to be included in the prestigious French publisher Gallimard’s poetry series. Work ...

(1931–2020), poet * Maro Douka (born 1947), novelist, short story writer, playwright, memoirist

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* Justine Frangouli-Argyris (born 1959), journalist, non-fiction writer, living in Canada

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* Rhea Galanaki (born 1947), novelist * Evi Gkotzaridis, historian, author of ''Trials of Irish History'' (2007) *

Katerina Gogou Katerina Gogou ( el, Κατερίνα Γώγου; 1940–1993) was a Greece, Greek poet, author and actress. Early life From the age of 5 years she started playing in children's plays. However she did not spend pleasant childhood years due to ...

(1940–1993), poet, actress * Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex (1920–2005), novelist, journalist

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Arianna Huffington Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (née Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou, el, Αριάδνη-Άννα Στασινοπούλου ; born July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of ''Th ...

(born 1950), Greek-born author, columnist, founder of ''

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* Margarita Karapanou (1946–2008), novelist * Ioanna Karystiani (born 1952), novelist, poet, short story writer, screenwriter *

Anna Komnene Anna Komnene ( gr, Ἄννα Κομνηνή, Ánna Komnēnḗ; 1 December 1083 – 1153), commonly Latinized as Anna Comnena, was a Byzantine princess and author of the ''Alexiad'', an account of the reign of her father, the Byzantine emperor, ...

(1083–1153), Greek princess, author of the biographical '' Alexiad''

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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 G ...

(born 1947), widely translated poet, critic, translator *

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 Rutger ...

(1941–2008), Byzantist historian

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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 ...

(born 1949), poet, translator *

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 m ...

(2nd–1st century BCE), lyric poet *

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 ...

(1905–1972), children's writer * Rena Molho (born 1946), historian, works on Greek Jewish history *

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 (ne ...

(1934–1991), art historian * Elizabeth Moutzan-Martinegou (1801–1832), poet, playwright and translator

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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 Alb ...

(1903–1959), poet, novelist * Maria Papayanni (born 1964), children's writer *

Maria Polydouri Maria Polydouri (; 1 April 1902 – 29 April 1930) was a Greek poet who belonged to the school of Neo-romanticism. Life Polydouri was born in Kalamata. She was the daughter of the philologist Eugene Polydouris and Kyriaki Markatou, ...

(1902–1930), poet

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Georges Sari Georges Sari ( el, Ζωρζ Σαρή) or Zorz Sari (born Georgia Sarivaxevani; 22 August 1925 – 9 June 2012), a Greek author and actress, was born in Athens. Her mother was French and her father was Greek from Ayvalik, Turkey. She grew up in Gre ...

(1925–2012), novelist, children's writer, actress *

Matilde Serao 200px, Matilde Serao, by "Rossi" Matilde Serao (; gr, Ματθίλδη Σεράο; 7 March 1856 – 25 July 1927) was an Italian journalist and novelist. She was the first woman called to edit an Italian newspaper, Il ''Corriere di Roma'' an ...

(1856–1927), Greek-born Italian journalist, novelist * Dido Sotiriou (1909–2004), novelist, journalist, playwright * Eliza Soutsou (1837–1887), writer * Elisavet Spathari, archaeologist, author

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* Vicky Theodoropoulou (born 1958), journalist, novelist, non-fiction writer * Alkis Thrylos, pen name of Eleni Ourani (1896–1971), literary critic, non-fiction writer * Soti Triantafyllou (born 1957), short story writer, novelist, essayist, translator * Vasia Tzanakari (born 1980), novelist, translator

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Helen Vlachos Helen Vlachos (, ; el, Ελένη Βλάχου, ; 18 December 1911 – 14 October 1995) was a Greek journalist, newspaper publishing heiress, proprietor, and anti-junta activist. Soon after the coup of 21 April 1967, she closed down her ...

(1911–1995), acclaimed journalist, newspaper publisher, autobiographer

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Yovanna Ioanna Fassou Kalpaxi (Greek: Ιωάννα Φάσσου Καλπαξή; born 14 November 1938), known professionally as Yovanna, is a Greek singer, novelist and poet known for her participation in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest representing Sw ...

(born 1940), poet, novelist, songwriter, singer

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Alki Zei Alki Zei (Greek: Άλκη Ζέη) (December 15, 1925 – February 27, 2020) was a Greek novelist and children's writer. Biography Zei was born in Athens. She studied in the philosophy school of Athens University, the Drama School of the At ...

(1925–2020), novelist, children's writer * Zyranna Zateli (born 1951), novelist, short story writer, non-fiction writer

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