Margarita Lymberaki

Margarita Lyberaki Greek Μαργαρίτα Λυμπεράκη 22 April 1919 24 May 2001 was a Greek writer and dramatist Lyberaki was born in Athens Greece the daughter of Sappho née Fexi a writer and Themistoklis Lymberakis Her sister was the sculptor Aglae Liberaki 192385 Her parents divorced when she was a child and she was raised by her maternal grandparents Her grandfather was the important publisher and bookstore owner Georgios D Fexis She studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens In 1941 she married the lawyer and poet Giorgos Karapanos After completing her degree in 1943 she wrote and published her first novel The Trees 1945 under her married name She wrote prose and plays in Greek and French Her novel The Straw Hats 1946 was adapted for television Her other works The Trees 1945 The Wife of Kandaulis 1955 The Other Alexander 1970 The Mystery 1976 etc She wrote the screenplay for Nikos Koundouros first film Magic City in 1954 with music by Manos Hadjidakis a landmark film for Greek cinema In 1962 he wrote the screenplay for the film Phaedra based on Euripides tragedy Hippolytus which tells the story of the illicit love passion of Phaedra wife of Theseus for his son Hippolytus directed by Jules Dassin The couple had one daughter novelist Margarita Karapanou After their daughters birth in 1946 they divorced and Liberaki moved to Paris where she began to write for the theater in French and Greek