Elias Venezis

Birthday:

03/04/1904

Place of birth:

Ayvalik, Ottoman Empire [now Turkey]:

Biography:

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". (Source: Wikipedia)