LILI BITA
The official website of Lili Bita, author, actress, and musician, one of contemporary Greece’s foremost cultural ambassadors.
Read her stellar reviews on Amazon.com.
Books
Women of Fire and Blood
In Women of Fire and Blood, Lili Bita reimagines the archetypal heroines of antiquity through a modern feminist sensibility. These poems, with their lyric directness and force and their powerful erotic candor, are a distinctive addition to the work of one of today's most important Greek poets. Purchase on Amazon.com
Check out Lili's performance at Leeway's 2008 cabaret!
Sister of Darkness
From childhood on an idyllic Greek island to coming of age in a world torn by war to entrapment and escape from a brutal marriage, Sister of Darkness is the powerful story of a woman's journey of self-discovery and personal liberation. Purchase on Amazon.com
Rich in sensuous evocation, unsparing in its candor and lucidity, this long-awaited work is destined to be a feminist classic.
The Scorpion and Other Stories
Set for the most part during the Second World War and the civil war that followed in Greece, these stories are not about the politics of the period but about its impact on the lives of ordinary people. This was the most traumatic decade of modern Greek history, and peoples lives concerned with family, marriage, death and private blood feuds, mirrored the larger struggle around the devastation of war and social strife. Purchase on Amazon.com
Reviews
Lili Bita transcends the individual woman. Her experiences, love or hatred, birth or death, ecstasy or despair, become universal. . . . Human life and myth are lived simultaneously. . . . Her vision is direct, unifying, and complete.
Anais Nin
"A modern Sappho."
The New Haven Register
“Among the most talented women of her generation.”
Tasos Athanassiadis,
Former Director,
Greek National Theater
Lili Bita is an impressive cultural ambassador of Hellenism. . . . No one should miss Lili's triumphant performance.
Dr. Kyriakos Kontopoulos
Director, Hellenic Cultural Center
Temple University
Almost unbelievably dynamic, vivid and passionate . . . Lili was a joy . . . She and her work are not to be missed.