Maro Douka

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Maro Douka

Born 1947
Chania, Greece
Occupation novelist
Nationality Greek
Writing period 1974–

Maro Douka (Greek: Μάρω Δούκα) (b. 1947, Chania, Crete, Greece) is an acclaimed Greek novelist. She has lived in Athens since 1966 and she read History and Archaeology at the University of Athens.[1] She belongs to the so-called Genia tou 70, which is a literary term referring to Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s; her debut work, Η Πηγάδα, based on her imprisonment in 1967 by the Military Junta, was published in 1974, just a few months after the Metapolitefsi.

She was awarded the Nikos Kazantzakis Prize of the Municipality of Heraklion for Η αρχαία σκουριά and the Greek State Prize for Literature for Η πλωτή πόλη (declining the latter). Her last novel to date, Αθώοι και φταίχτες, was awarded the Balkanika Prize for Literature,[2] the Kostas and Eleni Ouranis Prize of the Academy of Athens[3] and the Cavafy prize.[4]

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[edit] Works

[edit] Novels

  • Η αρχαία σκουριά (Fool's Gold), 1979 (translated into English[5] and French[6])
  • Η πλωτή πόλη (The Floating City), 1983 (translated into German[7])
  • Οι λεύκες ασάλευτες (The Immobile Aspens), 1987
  • Εις τον πάτο της εικόνας (At the Bottom of the Picture), 1990 (translated into French[8])
  • Ένας σκούφος από πορφύρα (Come Forth, King), 1995 (translated into English[9] and Italian[10])
  • Ουράνια μηχανική (Celestial Mechanics), 1999 (translated into Italian[11])
  • Αθώοι και φταίχτες (The Innocent and the Guilty), 2004 (translated into Serbian[12] and Turkish[13])

[edit] Short fiction

  • Η Πηγάδα (The Cauldron), 1974
  • Πού ’ναι τα φτερά; (Where are the Wings?), 1975
  • Καρέ φιξ (Carré Fixe), 1976

[edit] Non-fiction

  • Ο πεζογράφος και το πιθάρι του (The Writer and his Jar), 1992
  • Τα μαύρα λουστρίνια (The Black Leather Shoes), 2005

[edit] Theater

  • Σας αρέσει ο Μπραμς; (Do you like Brahms?), 2001[14]

[edit] External links

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Μάρω Δούκα - Έκθεση βιβλίου της Φραγκφούρτης 2001 - Ελλάδα τιμώμενη χώρα
  2. ^ Εαρινή Συμφωνία: Το βραβείο Μπαλκάνικα στη Μάρω Δούκα
  3. ^ Macedonian Press Agency: News in Greek, 05-12-30
  4. ^ «Καβάφεια» σε Δούκα, Μέσκο
  5. ^ Fool's Gold
  6. ^ Actes Sud
  7. ^ Amazon.de: Die Schwimmende Stadt: Maro Douka: Bücher
  8. ^ Littérature Grecque
  9. ^ Come forth, King
  10. ^ Collana Aristea - voll. 1-5
  11. ^ Collana Aristea - voll. 21-25
  12. ^ [MGSA-L] Douka wins Balkanika
  13. ^ Doğan Kitap - Tarihî Roman / Anlatı - Masumlar ve Suçlular
  14. ^ Μ Ε Τ Α Ι Χ Μ Ι Ο