Katerina Gogou
Katerina Gogou was a Greek poet, author and actress.
Personal life
Katerina Gogou was born in 1940 during World War II and the Axis occupation of Greece, for which she did not spend a pleasant childhood. She had a strict father with whom she lived during her childhood. Afterwards, in her teenage years, she lived with her mother.She was married to film director Pavlos Tassios, with whom she had a daughter.
Later in her life she got addicted to alcohol and drugs. She was found dead in her apartment in October 1993 due to a drug overdose.
Career
Acting
From the age of 5 years she started acting in children's plays. Professionally she debuted in theater with Dinos Iliopoulos' theater company in the play Ο Κύριος πέντε τοις εκατό in 1961. She made her first cinematographic appearance in the film Ο άλλος. Most of the films she participated in were Finos Film productions. She became more widely known for roles of cheerful and carefree women like in the movies Το ξύλο βγήκε από τον παράδεισο and Μια τρελή τρελή οικογένεια. She has received the award for best actress in a lead role in Thessaloniki International Film Festival for the film Το βαρύ πεπόνι, directed by Pavlos Tasios.Poetry and writing
As a poet she was known for her revolutionary and aggressive writing. She was an anarchist and her political identity was often reflected in her poems, such as "Υπερασπίζομαι την Αναρχία" or "Εμένα οι φίλοι μου είναι μαύρα πουλιά".She also wrote some books with one of them, Τρία κλικ αριστερά, being translated into English in 1983 by Jack Hirschman and published by Night Horn Books in San Francisco and also into Turkish in 2018 by Turkish author Mahir Ergun and published by Belge International Publishing House in Istanbul.