Poly Miliori

Poli Miliouri was born in Athens in 1945. She studied at the School of Philosophy at the University of Athens (Department of History and Archaeology). Her involvement with the world of books began with her systematic review of publications in the magazine "Pantheon," which she directed from 1970 to 1987. Transitioning from active journalism, she increasingly immersed herself in the field of literature—a field she continuously serves by creating reading clubs, publishing articles and giving lectures, and teaching creative writing and reading courses, as well as writing related manuals. Regarding her personal contribution to the adventure of fiction, she first honed her writing skills in chronicle writing (winning the "Pavlos Palaiologos" award), and for the past twenty-five years, she has primarily focused on novels. She has written eighteen books. The protagonists of her books are always her contemporary everyday people, with their intriguing pasts and current mistakes and passions. Although the spotlight often falls on the female position and fate as it evolves over the past and present century, men, women, children, and adolescents (her two "teen" novels have been awarded by the Circle of Greek Children's Books) are enlisted by the author to illuminate our place and time, particularly to narrate their unique, albeit seemingly insignificant, lives. Her novels—mostly written in a realistic style, although she has also published sagas, poetic narratives, and anti-novels—focus on the drama of relationships of love and blood and on our consciousness, which is altered by the course of life.