Eleni Vakalo was a Greek poet, art critic and art historian.
Occupation
writer, poet, art historian, art critic
Citizenship
Greece
Born
October 26, 1921, 1921
Died
October 10, 2001, 2001
Overview
Eleni Vakalo (; 1921 – 2001) was a Greek poet, art critic and art historian.
Biography
Eleni Vakalo, née Stavrinou, was born in 1921, in Constantinople, and in 1922 her parents moved to Athens. She studied archaeology at the University of Athens (1940–45) and art history at Sorbonne (1948). In 1944 she married the painter Giorgos Vakalo (1902 – 1991).
Awards
First State Award for Poetry, 1991
Essay Award of the Academy of Athens, 1997
Honorary degree in history-archaeology from the University of Thessaloniki, 1998
Honorary degree from the University of Derby, 2000
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