![]() ![]() Literary Prize ("Prix Litéraire des Jeunes Européens",2010 France) for Granda the liar. In the middle of this new and dangerous situation. Batchelder Award was granted for the translation to English and publishing in the United States of Wildcat Under Glass (1970), Petros" War (1974), and The Sound of the Dragon"s Feet (1980). The outbreak of war in Greece on 28 October 1940 turns the life of nine-year-old Petros upside-down. Her books have been translated into numerous languages. This was followed by a series of books for children, and in 1987 by her first novel for adults, Achilles Fiancee. Her first novel, The Tiger in the Shop Window (aka Wildcat Under Glass), (1963) was inspired by her childhood spent in Samos and is semi-autobiographical. ![]() During her early years at junior high school she started writing plays for puppet theatre. The play was a dramatized adaptation of a part of the Alki Zeis novel Petros War on the. That time she stayed in Paris, returning only after the dictatorship fell. The day was celebrated with a play presented by pupils of Years 7 & 9. In 1964 she and her family returned to Greece, but they all left again when the junta seized power in 1967. When she went to school her family first moved at Maroussi and later in Athens. On her father’s side she originated from Crete. She studied in the philosophy school of Athens University, the Drama School of the Athens Odeion, and in the screenwriting department of the Moscow Cinema Institute.įrom 1954 to 1964 she lived in the Soviet Union as a political refugee. Alki Zei was born in Athens in 1923 and passed her early childhood in Samos, where her mother was from. ![]() Alki Zei is a Greek novelist and children"s writer ![]()
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