Penelope Delta (1874–1941)
Author of A Tale Without a Name
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Works by Penelope Delta
Τον καιρό του… 4 copies
Η ζωή του Χριστού 2 copies
Τον καιρο του Βουλγαροκτονου 2 copies
Παραμύθι χωρίς όνομα 2 copies
Για την Πατρίδα 2 copies
Για την πατρίδα 2 copies
Για την πατρίδα: Η καρδιά… 1 copy
Η Ζωή του Χριστού 1 copy
Η Ζωή Του Χριστού 1 copy
Πρῶτες ἐνθυμήσεις 1 copy
Τα Μυστικά του Βάλτου 1 copy
Τ' ανεύθυνα - Στοχασμοί 1 copy
Παραμύθια και άλλα 1 copy
Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος 1 copy
Αναμνήσεις 1899 1 copy
Στα μυστικά του βάλτου 1 copy
Αναμνήσεις 1921 1 copy
Το γκρέμισμα 1 copy
Πρώτες ενθυμήσεις 1 copy
Στα μυστικά του βάλτου 1 copy
Ελευθέριος Κ.… 1 copy
Παραμύθι χωρίς όνομα 1 copy
Για την πατρίδα 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Delta, Penelope
- Legal name
- Δέλτα, Πηνελόπη
- Birthdate
- 1874
- Date of death
- 1941-05-02
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Greek
- Country (for map)
- Greece
- Birthplace
- Alexandria, Egypt
- Place of death
- Athens, Greece
- Places of residence
- Alexandria, Egypt
Athens, Greece
Frankfurt am Main, Germany - Occupations
- children's book author
young adult writer
historical novelist - Relationships
- Schlumberger, Gustave (correspondent)
Dragoumi, Ion (lover) - Short biography
- 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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- Members
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- Rating
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- ISBNs
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