Sotiriou

Dido Sotiriou, Greek novelist, journalist, and playwright.

  • She was born in Aydin, in western Anatolia.

  • "Her first experience as a refugee»

    She was sent to her wealthy uncle and his wife in Athens.
  • Sotiriou's family had to leave Western Anatolia.

    They had to leave because of the Greek-Turkish population exchange.
  • She published her novel Bloody Earth

    The title of the English edition is "Farewell Anatolia". The book deals with the trauma of the Greek-Turkish population exchange and the expulsion of Greeks from Asia Minor. In the preface Sotiriou mentions that she wrote the novel on the basis of the memories of a little Asia Minor farmer named AxiotisManolis, who had lived the events as an eyewitness.
  • She died.

    The realistic writer, who uses self biographical elements participating emotionally to the adventures of her protagonists, died.