Penelope Delta (1874–1941)
Autore di A Tale Without a Name
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Opere di Penelope Delta
Τον καιρό του… 4 copie
Η ζωή του Χριστού 2 copie
Τον καιρο του Βουλγαροκτονου 2 copie
Παραμύθι χωρίς όνομα 2 copie
Για την Πατρίδα 2 copie
Για την πατρίδα 2 copie
Για την πατρίδα: Η καρδιά… 1 copia
Η Ζωή του Χριστού 1 copia
Η Ζωή Του Χριστού 1 copia
Πρῶτες ἐνθυμήσεις 1 copia
Τα Μυστικά του Βάλτου 1 copia
Τ' ανεύθυνα - Στοχασμοί 1 copia
Παραμύθια και άλλα 1 copia
Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος 1 copia
Αναμνήσεις 1899 1 copia
Στα μυστικά του βάλτου 1 copia
Αναμνήσεις 1921 1 copia
Το γκρέμισμα 1 copia
Πρώτες ενθυμήσεις 1 copia
Στα μυστικά του βάλτου 1 copia
Ελευθέριος Κ.… 1 copia
Παραμύθι χωρίς όνομα 1 copia
Για την πατρίδα 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Delta, Penelope
- Nome legale
- Δέλτα, Πηνελόπη
- Data di nascita
- 1874
- Data di morte
- 1941-05-02
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Greek
- Nazione (per mappa)
- Greece
- Luogo di nascita
- Alexandria, Egypt
- Luogo di morte
- Athens, Greece
- Luogo di residenza
- Alexandria, Egypt
Athens, Greece
Frankfurt am Main, Germany - Attività lavorative
- children's book author
young adult writer
historical novelist - Relazioni
- Schlumberger, Gustave (correspondent)
Dragoumi, Ion (lover) - Breve biografia
- Penelope Delta was born in Alexandria, Egypt, to Emmanuel Benakis, a wealthy cotton merchant, and his wife Virginia Choremi. She had five siblings whose antics she later immortalized in her writing. When she was eight years old, the family went to live in Athens, Greece. In 1895, she married Stephanos Delta, a wealthy Greek businessman with whom she had three daughters. In 1906, they moved to Frankfurt, Germany for her husband's business. There she published her first novel, Gia tin Patrida (For the Sake of the Fatherland) in 1909. She became one of the earliest, and the most prolific, writers in Greek of children’s books and historical novels for teenage readers. In researching her first book, set in the Byzantine Empire, she began corresponding with historian Gustave Schlumberger, and their continued interaction provided material for her second novel, Ton Kairo tou Voulgaroktonou (In the Years of the Bulgar-Slayer). In 1916, she settled permanently in Athens, where her father had been elected Mayor. In 1925, she contracted polio, which paralyzed her for the rest of her life. Three of her novels based on her own family have been read by generations of children: Trellantonis (Crazy Antonis, 1932), Mangas (1935), and Ta Mystika tou Valtou (The Secrets of the Swamp, 1937). She took poison on April 27, 1941, devastated by Nazi Germany's invasion of her beloved Athens, and died several days later.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 39
- Utenti
- 198
- Popolarità
- #110,929
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
- 41
- Lingue
- 4