Alki Zei

Biography

Alki Zei (Greek: Άλκη Ζέη) (December 15, 1925– February 27, 2020) was a Greek novelist and children's writer.

Alki was born in Athens in 1923 and passed her early childhood in Samos, where her mother was from. On her father’s side she originated from Crete. When she went to school her family first moved at Maroussi and later in Athens.

She studied philosophy at the University of Athens, drama at the Athens Conservatory and Screenwriting at Moscow Cinema Institute.

She started writing very young. At high school she wrote some pieces for the puppet theatre. One of the characters she created later became one of the main heroes of the Athens Puppet Theatre “Barba Mytoussis”. She continued wri...