![]() ![]() Batchelder Award was granted for the translation to English and publishing in the United States of Wildcat Under Glass (1970), Petros' War (1974), and The Sound of the Dragon's Feet (1980). Tina's Web, won the Greek IBBY prize for the best book for older children, and Alki Zei has been nominated as a candidate for the 2004 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing and Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for Literature. Her teenage novel Constantina and her spiders (a.k.a. Her books have been translated into numerous languages. This was followed by a series of books for children, and in 1987 by her first novel for adults, Achilles Fiancee. Wildcat Under Glass), (1963) was inspired by her childhood spent in Samos and is semi-autobiographical. Her first novel, The Tiger in the Shop Window (a.k.a. During her early years at junior high school she started writing plays for puppet theatre. That time she stayed in Paris, returning only after the dictatorship fell.Īlki Zei took up writing very young. In 1964 she and her family returned to Greece, but they all left again when the junta seized power in 1967. From 1954 to 1964 she lived in the Soviet Union as a political refugee. Īlki Zei studied in the philosophy school of Athens University, the Drama School of the Athens Odeion, and in the screenwriting department of the Moscow Cinema Institute. ![]() ![]() Alki Zei (Greek: Άλκη Ζέη) (born 1925, Athens, Greece) is a Greek novelist and children's author. ![]()
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