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Elias Venezis | |
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![]() Elias Venezis in 1925 | |
Born | Elias Mellos 4 March 1904 Ayvalık (Kydonies), Ottoman Empire |
Died | 3 August 1973 Athens, Greece | (aged 69)
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | Greek |
Elias Venezis (Greek: Ηλίας Βενέζης) (March 4, 1904 - August 3, 1973) is the pseudonym of Elias Mellos (Ηλίας Μέλλος), a major Greek novelist. He was born in 1904 in Ayvalık (Kydonies) in Asia Minor and died in Athens in 1973. He wrote many books, of which the most famous are Number 31328 and Aeolian Earth. He is considered to be one of the writers of "Generation of the '30s".[1][2]