Alki Zei

In memoriam

Greek novelist and children's writer. Greek: Άλκη (Αγγελική) Ζέη Much-awarded Greek novelist Alki Zei, whose work has been translated in more than 30 languages, has died at her home at the age of 97, her publisher Nontas Papageorgiou announced. Her first, autobiographical, children’s novel “Wildcat under Glass,” was published in 1963. In 1987, she published her now-classic “Achilles’ Fiancée.” Zei studied at the Athens University School of Philosophy and the Athens Conservatory Drama School before going on to study film in Moscow. She became involved in the leftist movement in Greece during the German occupation in WWII and then went into exile in Russia with her husband between 1952 and 1964, returning briefly to Greece only to leave again at the start of the military junta in Greece in 1967. She lived in Paris until the mid-1970s. In 2010 she received a lifetime achievement award by the Academy of Athens and in 2014 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. A year later, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Patra. She was married to playwright Giorgos Sevastikoglou (Γιώργος Σεβαστίκογλου) who died in 1991. Zei is survived by her two children, Irene and Petros. Her funeral took place at Athens’ First Cemetery on Tuesday, 3rd March 2020.

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