CULTURAL TOPIC:CULTURAL CELEBRITIES
Ralleia Experimental Primary School Of Piraeus Teacher: Anagnostopoulou Konstantina Class: C1’ Greece 2017-18
EARLY LIFE OF MENELAOS LOUNTEMIS
Menelaos Lountemis (Essayist) Menelaos Lountemis, was the pen name one of the most important essayists in the Greek interwar period and post-World War II era. His pen name was inspired by his later homeland’s river Loudias.
MENELAOS LOUNTEMIS
• Born :1906 in Agia Kuriaki or Constantinople,Ottoman Empire • Died :22 January 1977 (aged 70-71)in Greece • Occupation : Essayist,Writer • Nationality : Greek
HIS EARLY LIFE (1)
• Lountemis was born to a Greek family in 1906.He was the only son among the five children of Grigoris Balassoglou and Domna Tsouflidi. • His family came as refugees from Yalova after Greek genocide and settled in Aegina, then in Edessa and finally in a village of Pella.
HIS EARLY LIFE (2)
• His family was wealthy,but bankrupted in the Greco-Turkish War (1919-22) • Through an odyssey of successive resettlements, he finally reached Athens and became a close connection of Kostas Varnalis, Angelos Sikelianos and Miltiadis Malakassis.
MENELAOS LOUNTEMIS • He became a member of the Hellenic Association of Litterateurs, under the presidency of Nikos Kazantzakis.
WORKS OF MENELAOS LOUNTEMIS
Menelaos Lountemis-works
• The first time he used his pen name was in 1934 for the short story: “One night with many lights under a city with stars”
Menelaos Lountemis-works
In 1938 was one of the 3 that shared the Greek National Literature Prize for the short stories collection: “The ships never came at shore�.
Menelaos Lountemis-works
His “One child counts the stars� its was best Greek best-seller of the 1950s and the most known of his books.
Some other works of Menelaos Lountemis
• “Cherries will be blooming this year”, novel, (1956)
Some other works of Menelaos Lountemis
Short stories for children “Hercules” “Theseus”
“Icarus”
“Daedalus”
some other works of Menelaos Lountemis
• “It’s cloudy”,novel (1946)
• “Street Abyss number 0”,novel (1962)
• “Watch of the world hit midnight”, novel (1963)