Georges Sari (Greek: Î–Ï‰Ï Î¶ Î£Î±Ï Î®) or Zorz Sari (born Georgia
Sarivaxevani; 22 August 1925 â€" 9 June 2012), a Greek author and
actress, was born in Athens. Her mother was French and her father was
Greek from Ayvalik, Turkey. She grew up in Greece, where she attended
elementary and secondary school. World War II broke out in 1940 before
she could finish her schooling.During the war, Sarivaxevani (later
Georges Sari or Sarri) joined the Resistance and fought with the
United Panhellenic Organization of Youth (EPON). Looking back on that
era, she herself noted that “the years during the Nazi occupation
were a time of happiness and freedom. We went from being miserable to
happy because we chose the road of life, even if death had a place
there as well. We grieved and rejoiced all together, but we were not
afraid. There was one goal: liberation†. She graduated while Greece
was still under Nazi occupation and began taking acting lessons at
Dimitris Rontiris' drama school.Georges Sari was injured during the
Greek Civil War, which followed right after World War II, suffering
wounds to her hand and foot from a bomb explosion. She received
treatment at Aghia Olga Hospital. In 1947, she was forced to leave for
Paris in exile. She worked various jobs while living there, while also
enrolling as a student at the Charles Dullin School of Dramatic Art.
Sari returned to Greece together with her family in 1962 and continued
acting in the theater until the rise of the Military junta, at which
point she decided along with other actor acquaintances to engage in
passive resistance and no longer act in the theater. That summer,
deprived as she was of any means of expression, she wrote her first
novel â€" The Treasure of Vaghia â€" which started off like a game
together with the children who surrounded her.Sari decided to dedicate
her life to writing: “In writing, I discovered all that I could not
find in the theater, perhaps because I was not a leading lady or
perhaps because I was not in a position to choose the roles that the
producer or director would select for me. I now bear the full
responsibility for my books. I do what I want; what I can.â€
Sarivaxevani; 22 August 1925 â€" 9 June 2012), a Greek author and
actress, was born in Athens. Her mother was French and her father was
Greek from Ayvalik, Turkey. She grew up in Greece, where she attended
elementary and secondary school. World War II broke out in 1940 before
she could finish her schooling.During the war, Sarivaxevani (later
Georges Sari or Sarri) joined the Resistance and fought with the
United Panhellenic Organization of Youth (EPON). Looking back on that
era, she herself noted that “the years during the Nazi occupation
were a time of happiness and freedom. We went from being miserable to
happy because we chose the road of life, even if death had a place
there as well. We grieved and rejoiced all together, but we were not
afraid. There was one goal: liberation†. She graduated while Greece
was still under Nazi occupation and began taking acting lessons at
Dimitris Rontiris' drama school.Georges Sari was injured during the
Greek Civil War, which followed right after World War II, suffering
wounds to her hand and foot from a bomb explosion. She received
treatment at Aghia Olga Hospital. In 1947, she was forced to leave for
Paris in exile. She worked various jobs while living there, while also
enrolling as a student at the Charles Dullin School of Dramatic Art.
Sari returned to Greece together with her family in 1962 and continued
acting in the theater until the rise of the Military junta, at which
point she decided along with other actor acquaintances to engage in
passive resistance and no longer act in the theater. That summer,
deprived as she was of any means of expression, she wrote her first
novel â€" The Treasure of Vaghia â€" which started off like a game
together with the children who surrounded her.Sari decided to dedicate
her life to writing: “In writing, I discovered all that I could not
find in the theater, perhaps because I was not a leading lady or
perhaps because I was not in a position to choose the roles that the
producer or director would select for me. I now bear the full
responsibility for my books. I do what I want; what I can.â€
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