Despina Lelekou – Tataki was born in Chiliomodi of Korinthia, Greece. She has graduated the Rallios Pedagogical Academy of Piraeus and continued her studies at the University of Cambridge, where she studied Literature, and at the University of Nijmegen, Holland, where she studied archaeology. After returning to Greece, she studied at the University of Athens. She has also studied linguistics and can speak six languages. She has two children, Manousos Manousakis, famous Greek movie director, and Melia Tataki, author and painter. In 1991 her first book "Klotho" was published followed by eighteen more titles. She focuses on women and their role in society, mainly in the period after the Second World War until today. She has been longlisted for the Nobel Prize and has been a candidate for the "Women of Europe" award.