Loula Anagnostaki (13 December 1928 – 8 October 2017) was a

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writer. Her surname also appears as Anagnostakē.

Biography

She was born in

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...

. She was the sister of poet

Manolis Anagnostakis Manolis Anagnostakis (10 March 1925 – 23 June 2005) was a Greek poet and critic at the forefront of the Marxist and existentialist poetry movements arising during and after the Greek Civil War in the late 1940s. Anagnostakis was a leader amongst ...

. She earned a law degree from

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...

. Her first three one act plays were performed in 1965 and published in 1974: ''Dianyktereusē'' (Overnight stop), ''Polé'' (The City) and ''Parelasé'' (Parade). Her works have been performed by the

National Theatre of Greece The National Theatre of Greece () is based in Athens, Greece. History The first permanent theatre in modern Greece had been the Boukoura Theatre from 1840, but it had difficulty in managing its operation and stood empty for long periods of t ...

and by

Karolos Koun Karolos Koun ( el, Κάρολος Κουν; September 13, 1908 in Bursa – February 14, 1987 in Athens) was a prominent Greek theater director, widely known for his lively staging of ancient Greek plays. Biography Koun was born in Bursa, Ottoman ...

's Art Theatre, as well as in Cyprus, France, England, Italy and Poland.

Selected works

* ''E Synanastrophē'' (Social encounter), play (1967) * ''Antonio ē to menyma'' (Antonio or the message), play (1972) * ''Nikē'' (Victory), play (1978) * '' E Kaseta'' (The tape), play (1983), published by «Κέδρος», Αθήνα 2008, * ''O Ihos Tou Oplou'' (The sound of the gun), play (1986), published by «Κέδρος», Αθήνα 2007, * ''Διαμάντια και μπλουζ. Το ταξίδι μακριά.''(Diamonds and Blues. The long journey.) plays published by «Κέδρος», Αθήνα 2008,

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* 1928 births 2017 deaths Greek dramatists and playwrights Greek women dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Greek dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Greek women writers Writers from Thessaloniki {{Greece-writer-stub