Anthoula Stathopoulou-Vafopoulou

[1][2][3] She began writing poetry and plays, which she published in literary magazines in Thessaloniki (such as Makedonikes Imeres) and Athens (such as Nea Estia).

[1][2] In 1935, Stathopoulou-Vafopoulou died of tuberculosis, like her poetic contemporaries Maria Polydouri and Minos Zotos [el], at only 26 years old.

[3] Shortly after her death, the poet Tellos Agras [el] published a review of her book of poetry in Nea Estia.

[5] Her husband collected her writings the following year in a volume titled Works (Greek: Έργα), with a prologue by Gregorios Xenopoulos.

In its lyricism, using rhetorical questions and similes, the work conveys a great emotional weight to the reader.

A page with the Greek title of Anthoula Stathopoulou-Vafopoulou's book "Sleepless Nights," and an illustration of an ouroboros
The title page of Sleepless Nights