Background
Polydouri was born in Kalamata.
Polydouri was born in Kalamata.
She was a contemporary of Kostas Karyotakis, with whom she had a desperate but incomplete love affair. Although she wrote poetry from at an early age, her most important poems were written during the last four years of her life, when, suffering from consumption, she was secluded in an Athens sanatorium, where she died in 1930.