Ilias Venezis
1904
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1973
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
movement: Thirties Generation
country of citizenship: Greece
languages spoken, written or signed: Modern Greek
occupation: writer
award received: Athens Academy Award
position held: Member of the Athens Academy
Elias Venezis (Greek: Ηλίας Βενέζης) (March 4, 1904 - August 3, 1973) is the pseudonym of Elias Mellos (Ηλίας Μέλλος), a major Greek novelist. He was born in 1904 in Ayvalık (Kydonies) 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". Source: Wikipedia (en)
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