Nora Anagnostaki

Nora Anagnostaki (1930-2013) was an essayist, literary critic, and translator. She was born in Athens, with roots in Crete and Asia Minor. Although she studied law at the University of Athens, she never practiced as a lawyer. She worked as a bookseller in Thessaloniki. As the wife of poet Manolis Anagnostakis, she was responsible for presenting literary and literary theory texts in the magazine "Kritiki," where she first appeared with the essay "Prologue to the Poetry of Eleni Vakalo." She also collaborated with the magazines "Endochora," "Nea Poreia," and "Chroniko" and participated in the publication "Eighteen Texts" during the dictatorship (1970). Her critical work is characterized by a high level of theoretical training, particularly concerning the French theorists of her time and the tenets of the "New Novel," while simultaneously offering an original and insightful perspective on pre-war and post-war creators such as Miltos Sachtouris, Eleni Vakalo, Giorgos Seferis, D.P. Papaditsas, Kleitos Kyrou, among others. In 1996, she was honored with the Special State Prize for Literature for her entire body of work. She passed away in Athens on December 31, 2013, at the age of 83, after a brief hospitalization. For more biographical details on Nora Anagnostaki, see Alexis Ziras, "Anagnostaki, Nora" in the "Dictionary of Modern Greek Literature," Athens, Patakis Publishers, 2007.