Anna Sikelianos

Anna Sikelianou, who had Cretan heritage from her father Victor Kambanaris and Syros roots from her mother, was born in 1904. In 1922, she married the physician Georgios Karamanis, the founder of the first sanatorium in Greece, whom she divorced in 1940 after meeting and falling in love with Angelos Sikelianos in 1938 (they were married on June 17, 1940).

She worked professionally in the art of weaving. She edited the volume Angelos Sikelianos: Letters to Anna (Ikaros, 1980). She authored the books My Life with Angelos (Estia Bookstore, 1985), A Table Remembers (1995), and The Poet Angelos Sikelianos (Ikaros, 2002). She translated Mary Webb's novels Precious Bane (Epops, 2025) and The Golden Arrow (Nefeli, 1988), Maurice de Guérin’s prose poem The Centaur (Agra, 1990), and Isadora Duncan’s autobiography, My Life (Nefeli, 1990). She passed away in 2006.