Angelos Terzakis (16 February 1907 in Nafplion

Nafplion

Nafplio is a seaport town in the Peloponnese in Greece that has expanded up the hillsides near the north end of the Argolic Gulf. The town was the first capital of modern Greece, from the start of the Greek Revolution in 1821 until 1834. Nafplio is now the capital of the peripheral unit of...

 – 3 August 1979 in Athens

Athens

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) was a Greek

Greeks

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 writer of the 30s Generation. He composed short stories, novels and plays.

Life

He was born in Nafplion

Nafplion

Nafplio is a seaport town in the Peloponnese in Greece that has expanded up the hillsides near the north end of the Argolic Gulf. The town was the first capital of modern Greece, from the start of the Greek Revolution in 1821 until 1834. Nafplio is now the capital of the peripheral unit of...

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

Athens

Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

, where he finished school and studied law at the University of Athens. He made his first appearance in Greek literature in 1925 with the short story collection The Forgotten (Ο Ξεχασμένος). He took part in the war of 1940

Greco-Italian War

The Greco-Italian War was a conflict between Italy and Greece which lasted from 28 October 1940 to 23 April 1941. It marked the beginning of the Balkans Campaign of World War II...

 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

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.

He died on the 3rd of August 1979 in Athens. His son, Dimitri Terzakis

Dimitri Terzakis

Dimitri Terzakis is a Greek composer. His father was the author Angelos Terzakis.From 1959–1964 Terzakis studied composition with Yannis Papaioannou at the Athens Hellenic Conservatory, followed by five years spent at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, Germany where he studied composition with...

, is a noted composer

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.

Novels

• Prisoners (Δεσμώτες, 1932)
• The Decay of the Tough Ones (Η παρακμή των Σκληρών, 1933)
• The Purple City (Η Μενεξεδένια Πολιτεία, 1937)
• Princess Isambo (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
  M. Karagatsis
  M. Karagatsis was the pen name of the important modern Greek novelist, journalist, critic and playwright Dimitris Rodopoulos. He was born in Athens, lived in Larissa and studied law in France. The pen name M. Karagatsis is the name the novelist is known with. The letter "M." comes from Mitya,...
  
  , Myrivilis and Venezis)

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)