Maro Douka

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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. 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, the Kostas and Eleni Ouranis Prize of the Academy of Athens and the Cavafy prize.

Works

Novels

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

Short fiction

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

Non-fiction

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

Theater

Σας αρέσει ο Μπραμς; (Do you like Brahms?), 2001

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