"Luke Acrita"

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Loukis Akritis (1909 – 7 February 1965) was a Greek Cypriot literary writer (occupied in prose, theatre, and essay), journalist and politician. His parents were Hatziyanakos Akrititas and Eleni Katirjiyanni. His literary work is governed by his progressive ideology and humanitarian worldview and is characterized by an optimistic perspective, derived from his belief in the mental endurance of socially disadvantaged people.

His wife was Sylva Akritia daughter of Constantine Yavasoglou, Minister of Welfare and Senator with Eleftherios Venizelos. Sylva Akrita was the first female MP in PASOK history, member of the Council of Europe and Minister for Health, Welfare and Social Security. Together they had a daughter, journalist and writer Elena Akrita.

His life
Lucis Akritis was born in 1909 in Morfu, Cyprus. After graduating in 1925, from the Pancyprian High School, he studied at the Nicosia Teaching School. He worked for two years as a teacher in Cyprus while publishing various texts in the Times. In 1930 he came to Athens, was involved in journalism and was a political editor initially in the newspaper Estia and then in Pruia. He was also a correspondent of the Nicosia newspaper Morning and at the same time studied English Literature at the University of Athens and collaborated with the Great Greek Encyclopedia of the Tower.

During the Greek-Italian war, in which he took part as a simple soldier, he sent from the front responses to the newspaper Estia. During the last few months of the occupation she began publishing the resistance newspaper Daily News, which was politically oriented towards the Centre Union and George Papandreou's choices, and her publication continued for a while after liberation. During the occupation Akritis was a founding member of the resistance organization Trimel Committee of Agonos (later High Liberation Committee) along with Miltiades Porphyrogennis and General Spiliotopoulos.

From 1952 to 1954 he published the Greek Chronicles magazine (about 100 issues), which was originally weekly and later dated every fifteen days and in charge of literary subjects was the well-known poet and intellectual Victor Brittakos. From mid-1959 he began publishing the weekly magazine World, Science, and Life which from early 1962 also became a fortnight. In this magazine Acritas also published some of his short stories including the human cargo.

In 1964, immediately after the events of the inter-communal riots, he rushed to Cyprus to convey a message of support for Greece to the National Chief Makarios and the Cypriot people.

He died in 1965, aged 56.

Political career of Louki Akrita
Deeply democrat, he distinguished himself for his resistance action and political course in the 50s, '60s, in the OPEC, in Pro