Elias Venezis

Elias Venezis (Greek: Ηλίας Βενέζης) is the pseudonym of Elias Mellos, a major Greek novelist. He was born in 1904 in Ayvalık (Κυδωνίες) in Asia Minor and died in Athens in 1973. He wrote many books, of which the most famous are Number 31328 and Aeolian Earth. He is considered to be one of the writers of "the Generation of the 30s".