Angelos Terzakis ( el, Άγγελος Τερζάκης; 16 February 1907 – 3 August 1979) was a

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of the "

Generation of the '30s The Generation of the '30s () was a group of Greek writers, poets, artists, intellectuals, critics, and scholars who made their debut in the 1930s and introduced modernism in Greek art and literature. The Generation of the '30s is also cited as a so ...

". He wrote short stories, novels and plays.

Life

He was born in

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in 1907 and lived there until 1915, when he moved to

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, where he finished school and studied law at the

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...

. He made his first appearance in

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in 1925 with the short story collection ''The Forgotten'' (Ο Ξεχασμένος). He took part in the war of 1940 and documented this experience in some of his short stories and especially in his book ''April'' (Απρίλης). In 1969 he was awarded the prize of Literary Excellence (Αριστείο Γραμμάτων) of the Athens Academy. He died on 3 August 1979 in Athens. His son,

Dimitri Terzakis Dimitri Terzakis ( el, Δημήτρης Τερζάκης; born March 12, 1938 in Athens) is a Greek composer. His father was the author Angelos Terzakis. From 1959–1964 Terzakis studied composition with Yannis Papaioannou at the Athens Hellen ...

, is a noted

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Works

Novels

* ''Prisoners'' (Δεσμώτες, 1932) * ''The Decline of the Skleros family'' (Η παρακμή των Σκληρών, 1933) * ''The Purple City'' (Η Μενεξεδένια Πολιτεία, 1937) * ''Princess Isabeau'' (Η πριγκηπέσσα Ιζαμπώ, 1945) * ''Journey with Esperus'' (Ταξίδι με τον Έσπερο, 1946) * ''The Twilight of Men'' (Το λυκόφως των ανθρώπων, 1947) * ''Without God'' (Δίχως Θεό, 1951) * ''The Secret Life'' (Η μυστική ζωή, 1957) * ''The Novel of the Four'' (Το Μυθιστόρημα των Τεσσάρων, 1958) (written together with Karagatsis, Myrivilis and

Venezis Elias Venezis ( el, Ηλίας Βενέζης) (March 4, 1904 - August 3, 1973) is the pseudonym of Elias Mellos (), a major Greek novelist. He was born in 1904 in Ayvalık (Kydonies) in Asia Minor and died in Athens in 1973. He wrote many bo ...

)

Short story collections

* ''The Forgotten'' (Ο ξεχασμένος, 1925) * ''Automn SYmphony'' (Φθινοπωρινή συμφωνία, 1929) * ''Of Love and of Death'' (Του έρωτα και του θανάτου, 1943) * ''April'' (Απρίλης, 1946) * ''Affection'' (Η στοργή, 1944)

Plays

* ''Emperor Michael'' (Αυτοκράτωρ Μιχαήλ, 1936) * ''Wedding March'' (Γαμήλιο Εμβατήριο, 1937) * ''The Cross and the Sword'' (Ο σταυρός και το σπαθί, 1939) * ''Helots'' (Είλωτες, 1939) * ''The Master'' (Ο εξουσιαστής, 1942) * ''The Great Game'' (Το μεγάλο παιχνίδι, 1944) * ''Pure'' (Αγνή, 1949) * ''Theofano'' (Θεοφανώ, 1956) * ''Night in the Mediterranean'' (Νύχτα στη Μεσόγειο, 1957) * ''The Happiness Ransom'' (Τα λύτρα της ευτυχίας, 1959) * ''Thomas the Two-Souled One'' (Θωμάς ο δίψυχος, 1962) * ''The Ancestor'' (Ο πρόγονος, 1970)

Footnotes

References

* K. Mitsakis, Νεοελληνική πεζογραφία. Η γενιά του ’30. Athens, 1977 * M. Vitti, ''The thirties' generation. Ideology and shape''. Athens, 1979 * K. A. Dimadis, Δικτατορία-Πόλεμος και πεζογραφία 1936–1944. Athens, 1991 1907 births 1979 deaths National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni 20th-century Greek dramatists and playwrights Generation of the '30s Greek journalists 20th-century Greek novelists Theatre in Greece People from Nafplion Members of the Academy of Athens (modern) Greek essayists 20th-century novelists Greek male writers Male novelists Male dramatists and playwrights Male essayists 20th-century essayists 20th-century Greek male writers Greek military personnel of World War II 20th-century journalists {{Greece-journalist-stub