Omiros Pellas

Homer Pellas (pseudonym of Odysseas Giannopoulos) was born in 1921 in Kaymeni Gynaika (now known as Prodromos) in Trifylia, to farmer parents. He graduated from Kyparissia High School and then studied at the Pedagogical Academy of Thessaloniki, from which he graduated in 1940. During the occupation, he worked as a teacher in a village in Edessa. He joined the National Liberation Front (EAM), was arrested in 1943, and after being tortured, was released due to lack of evidence against him. In 1944, he was arrested again and sent as a hostage to Germany. He describes his life in the concentration camp in the novel "Stalag VI C". In 1945, he returned to Athens, where he took on various odd jobs to make a living. He was arrested and exiled to Ikaria, and when the time came for him to be drafted, he was sent to Makronisos, from where he was released under Peace Measures. He was later appointed as a teacher in villages in the Pella Prefecture. He died in 1962 in Skydra, where he lived with his wife. Homer Pellas was an amateur painter and sculptor. He wrote studies related to children and their education: "The Book and the Child", "The Child and Play", "The Problem of Youth Education", and others on art: "We the Public and the Artists of Our Time", "Reflections on Abstract Art", published in the magazine "Zygos". He also wrote short stories: "Anna", "Pins", "Stavroula" (Kedros 1978), "Andreas" (Stigmi 1986), "Old Lias", "Stavris", with which he participated in the resistance short story competition of the "Art Review".