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    Elias Venezis

    Greek writer

    Elias Venezis is the pseudonym of Elias Mellos, a major Greek novelist. He was born in 1904 in Ayvalık in Asia Minor and died in Athens in 1973. He wrote many books, of which the most famous are Number 31328 and Aeolian Earth. He is considered to be one of the writers of "Generation of the '30s". Wikipedia

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    Elias Venezis was born and raised in "Aivali" (the hellenized pronunciation of Ayvalık), where he completed high school.In 1914, Venezis' family fled from Ayvalik to Lesbos to avoid persecution but returned to Asia Minor after the Greek army took over Smyrna and its hinterland in 1919. When the area was recaptured by the Turkish Army in 1922, Venezis was taken prisoner and enslaved in a ...
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    Ilias Venezis was a Greek writer who was part of the so-called "Aeolian school" of novelists. These novelists had all been directly involved in the 1922 violent uprooting of the Greek population of Anatolia. According to Roderick Beaton, they "saw fiction as a way of communicating and preserving experiences of historical significance."
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    Ilias (or Elias) Venezis (Greek: Ηλίας Βενέζης) was a Greek writer. He was born in 1904 in Ayvalık (Κυδωνίες) in Asia Minor and died in Athens in 1973. He wrote many books throughout his career as an author. His most famous book is Number 31328. Elias Venezis is not his real name, but his pen name.
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    Born:March 4, 1904Died:August 3, 1973 (aged 69)
  6. In this story of his childhood, half fiction, half truth, Ilias Venezis describes and affirms a world in which the lives of humans, be they smugglers, saints, brigands, farmers, camel drivers or children, are reflected in nature - in her mountains, rivers, trees, eagles, bears, eels, and lizards, and all her manifestations - and therefore share ...
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  7. aiorabooks.com

    ILIAS VENEZIS Translated by Joshua Barley Serenity follows the journey of a group of Greek refugees who were displaced from their homeland in Asia Minor and settled in the summer of 1923 in a desolate corner of the coast, near Athens. Told in the author's characteristic sparse, lyrical style and inspired by his own experience of migration, it details their hatred of war, their love for the ...
  8. themodernnovel.org

    Home » Greece » Elias Venezis » Γαλήνη (Serenity). Elias Venezis:Γαλήνη (Serenity) Note that the English translation calls him Ilias Venezis, not Elias. At the end of World War I and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the Greeks sent an army to protect the many Greeks who lived in Western Anatolia and where their ancestors had lived for hundreds of years.
  9. Ilias Venezis. Writer: Galini. Ilias Venezis (1904 - 1973) is the pseudonym of Elias Mellos, a major Greek novelist. He was born in 1904 in Ayvali (Kydonies) in Asia Minor and died in 1973 in Athens. His most famous works include Number 31328 and Aeolian Land. He is considered to be one of the writers of the Generation of the '30s. He was born and raised in Ayvali, where he graduated...
  10. the-tls.co.uk

    Ilias Venezis (the pen name of Elias Mellos), born in 1904 in Aivali, Turkish Ayvalik, in the Ottoman Empire, wrote Land of Aeolia in Athens during the Nazi Occupation. He gave instructions for its publication as he was awaiting execution for attending a secret memorial of Greek fighters on the Albanian front.
  11. themodernnovel.org

    Elias (also Ilias) Venezis was born in 1904 in Aivali. He lived there till World War I when his mother and siblings moved to Mytiline. ... He returned to Mytiline where Stratis Myrvilis was spearheading a new literary movement and he encouraged Venezis to write l Number 31328. which was first serialised in a newspaper. The book had considerable ...

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