Maria Kriezi-Iordanidou

In memoriam

Maria Kriezi-Iordanidou (1897-6 November 1989) was a Greek novelist. In her works there immediacy, simple style, live dialogues and nostalgia. Born in Istanbul, daughter of Nicolas Hydriote Kriezi, engineer in the merchant navy and Politissa Efrosinis dude. He came briefly in Piraeus to return again in Istanbul where he attended the American College. In 1914 Batumi found the then Russian Empire invited by an uncle of holiday but was blocked there by the outbreak of World War I and the October Revolution then. He stayed five years there and clear in this period he attended the High School of Sevastopol. In 1919 he returned to Istanbul and worked in American trading company. In 1920 he transfer to Alexandria, Egypt, where he came into contact with the intellectual circles, became a member of the Egyptian Communist Party and in 1923 he married the teacher Iordanidis Jordan, professor at the "Victoria College". After her marriage moved with her husband and her mother to Athens, where he worked at the embassy of the Soviet Union. In 1931 split from Iordanidis, which had in the meantime acquired two children. In 1939 he was dismissed from the embassy and began again to deal with the language courses. During the German occupation destroyed her house and she was persecuted and closed in various camps. Because of the conditions of life of the Iordanidou he gained great knowledge of languages ​​and worked as a private employee. She became known in the literary field with Loxandra work, written at the age of 65 years, in 1962, and has seen many revisions. The Loxandra describes with great vivacity and humor the customs and life of the Greeks of Constantinople and is based on memories of Iordanidou before the First World War. It is essentially the story of her grandmother. Life in Russia describes the Iordanidou to book holidays in the Caucasus (1965), while in San crazy birds (1978) speaks of the years in Alexandria and Athens during the interwar period. Last work is our courtyard (1981). Her works were a great publishing success. Awarded in 1978 by the Patriarchate of Constantinople with the Golden Cross and Ofikio the Sovereign of the Ecumenical Throne. He died on November 6, 1989 and was buried in New Smyrna Cemetery.

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