Anatoli Akritopoulou - Tougiannidou

Anatoli Akritopoulou-Tougiannidou was born in 1935 in Molocha Voio, Kozani. With the outbreak of the civil war, she moved with her family to Neapoli, and in 1948, she voluntarily relocated to the Iosifogleio Children's Town (Saint Charalambos of Nea Smyrni) in Athens. She lived there for two years, away from the storms of war. It was there that she completed primary school in an environment where she was introduced to literature, theater, and music for the first time. At the same time, she discovered her love for letters and art, a passion that accompanied her throughout her life. Newlywed, she followed her husband to Stuttgart, Germany, in hopes of a better future. Hard work in various factories and raising a large family with five children did not prevent her from expressing her thoughts and emotions through poetry. The book "In the Passage of Time" is her first poetry collection.