Lilika Nakou

Lilika Nakou ( Greek Λιλίκα Νάκου ; also Lilika Naku , Lilika Nakos ; * 1904 in Athens , according to other sources 1899 , 1903 or 1906 ; † May 25, 1989 ibid.) Was a Greek writer.

life and work

The Athenian lived for a long time in Paris and Geneva , where she graduated from the conservatory and studied philosophy. She wrote her first well-known stories in French. Poet colleagues like Romain Rolland and Miguel de Unamuno praised these early works, but Unamuno recommended the young author to switch to her mother tongue. Nakou's main work is therefore written in Greek. Her work shows a socially committed and sensitive psychologically observing author. In her widely acclaimed novels and stories, Nakou mostly dealt with the oppressed and weaker members of society.

In 1945, during the Greek Civil War , Nakou worked as a nurse in British-occupied Athens, where there was a famine. Her work The Children's Inferno , which was smuggled into Switzerland from Athens and appeared in French and English, is credited with receiving food aid (including milk powder ) from the Red Cross .

Nakou's works have rarely been translated into German; her prose story “Das Kitten” appeared in the 1960 anthology Antigone lives with other works of modern Greek literature. The author was also translated into other languages during her lifetime.

Publications

Hē xeparthenē , Ta Chronika, Athens 1932. (novel)
Hoi parastratēmanoi . 1935. (novel)
Hē kolasē tōn paidiōn . 1945. (collection of stories)
Hē kyria Ntoremi . 1955. (novel)
Anthrōpina peprōmena . 1955. (novel)
Gia mia kainuria zōē . 1960. (novel)
Hoi oromatistes tēs Ikarias . 1963. (novel)

literature

Deborah Tannen : Lilika Nakos. Twane Publications, 1983. ISBN 978-0805765243 (English)
Konstantinos Dimadis : Lilika Nakou and the historical story "Moscho Tzavella", Athens 1995 (Greek)
Vassiliki Lalagianni: Entre Fiction et Autobiographie: les écrits de Lilika Nakos in: Neohelicon, Vol. 23.2006, Issue 1, pp. 123–129 (French)

Web links

Literature by and about Lilika Nakou in the WorldCat catalog (Also in WorldCat: Literature with alternative spelling of the author's name)

Individual evidence

↑ Isidora Rosenthal-Kamarinea : Modern Greek storytellers - an anthology . Walter-Verlag, Olten 1958, p. 414.
^ Klaus Detlev Grothusen (Ed.): Greece . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1980, ISBN 3525362021 , p. 514.
↑ L'Enfer des enfants , translated from Modern Greek by Madeleine Martin and
The Children's Inferno - Stories of the Great Famine in Greece , translated from French by Allan Ross Macdougall. Gateway Books, Hollywood 1946
↑ Bruce Merry (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Modern Greek Literature . Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004, ISBN 0313308136 , pp. 285f.
↑ Melpo Axioti and Dimitrios Hadzis (eds.): Antigone lives - Modern Greek stories . Verlag Volk und Welt, East Berlin 1960. (Second edition 1961.)

personal data
SURNAME	Nakou, Lilika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Naku, Lilika; Νάκου, Λιλίκα (Greek); Nakos, Lilika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek writer
DATE OF BIRTH	1899 or 1903 or 1904 or 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Athens
DATE OF DEATH	May 25, 1989
Place of death	Athens

[Rosenthal-Kamarinea-1] Isidora Rosenthal-Kamarinea : Modern Greek storytellers - an anthology . Walter-Verlag, Olten 1958, p. 414.

[Grothusen-2] Klaus Detlev Grothusen (Ed.): Greece . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1980, ISBN 3525362021 , p. 514.

[3] L'Enfer des enfants , translated from Modern Greek by Madeleine Martin and
The Children's Inferno - Stories of the Great Famine in Greece , translated from French by Allan Ross Macdougall. Gateway Books, Hollywood 1946

[4] Bruce Merry (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Modern Greek Literature . Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004, ISBN 0313308136 , pp. 285f.

[5] Melpo Axioti and Dimitrios Hadzis (eds.): Antigone lives - Modern Greek stories . Verlag Volk und Welt, East Berlin 1960. (Second edition 1961.)