Voula Damianakou

Voula Damianakou (1914–2016) was a Greek author, translator and a member of the Greek resistance against Nazi Germany.

Biography Voula Damianakou was born in Panitsa, Laconia in 1914. She was a supporter of women's political rights and collaborated with Vassilis Rotas in the translations of Shakespeare plays and with whom she published the magazine Laikos Logos between 1965 and 1967. In January 1999, she received Abdullah Öcalan in her house upon the request of the retired Greek Admiral Antoni Naxakis. She died on 19 September 2016 in Athens

Personal life She was married to Vassili Rotas the Minister of Culture of the Political Committee of National Liberation (PEEA), the political movement against the Axis powers during World War II.