Efi Chantzouli
RESPONSIBILITY
You traveled through life alone.
You made mistakes in your unruly youth.
Your childhood dreams appear timidly.
Coral moments, forgotten.
You honored your ideals.
You fought as bravely as you could.
A rebel in a petty-bourgeois prison.
But the rose-fingered dawn rises elsewhere.
You abandon your desires with heartbreak.
Your wounds set up a monologue that is boring and persistent.
Fraud brags with impudence.
Ignore the burden of guilt.
With courage, welcome your responsibility.
It won you with undivided effort.
You do not give in even now,
that you are left alone with yourself.
You now feel gained and free.
Efi Chantzouli. Born in
Athens.. She studied journalism. She is a graduate of the Postgraduate
Department of International, European and Economic Studies of the Athens
University of Economics and Business. She studied Acting. She taught in
secondary education tutoring centers. She worked as Head of Statistical
Information at the Hellenic Statistical Authority. As a journalist, she wrote
interviews with actors and singers in various magazines. She maintained a
column in the newspaper “METROPOLIS” with the title “That's what Efi said”.
She is professionally involved in
acting. Indicative theatrical performances that she played: "The
Temptation" by Xenopoulos,"About Love" "The Secret Path’’, "The
Trial of Socrates","The Swan Song" ,"The
House of Bernarda Alba" by F. G. Lorca, "Faust"
by Goethe, "As You Like Me" by L. Pirandello,
"The Merry Wives of Windsor" by Shakespeare, "The
High Mountains" by Z. Papantoniou, "The Rape of
Lucretia" by Shakespeare et al. She acted on
television in the serials: “Hair” directed by A. Rigas, “Oath
II” and “Archelaou 5”.
She has published two poetry
collections: “Bittersweet notes” and “Journey of emotions” and three children's fairy tales: “Lessons
in the Forest”, “The Candy island” and “Thomoulis”.
She has participated in poetry anthologies such as: "Philological
New Year", "Summer wanderings", "The
Red of Love", etc. She was honored with the Special Poetry and
Children's Book Award from the Greek Writers' Union in 2018. In 2024, her
second poetry collection "Journey of emotions" was
awarded by the International Writers' Society. She was honored in 2025 with the
award "Panorama International Literature & Art Awards" for
her theatrical and literary work.
