Maro Douka

Maro Douka (Greek: Μάρω Δούκα; born 1947) is a Greek novelist. She has lived in Athens since 1966 and she studied 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). 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] She has also been awarded the N. Themelis prize for her last novel Έλα να πούμε ψέματα.^[5]

She is a founding member of the Hellenic Authors' Society.^[6] At the 2014 local elections, she was elected to the City Council of Athens under the "Anoihti Poli" Syriza ticket,^[7] led by the candidate Gabriel Sakellaridis.

Works

Novels

• Η αρχαία σκουριά (Fool's Gold), 1979 (translated into English,^[8] French,^[9] Italian,^[10] Serbian and Albanian).
• Η πλωτή πόλη (The Floating City), 1983 (translated into German^[11])
• Οι λεύκες ασάλευτες (The Immobile Aspens), 1987
• Εις τον πάτο της εικόνας (At the Bottom of the Picture), 1990 (translated into French^[12])
• Ένας σκούφος από πορφύρα (Come Forth, King), 1995 (translated into English^[13] and Italian^[14])
• Ουράνια μηχανική (Celestial Mechanics), 1999 (translated into Italian^[15])
• Αθώοι και φταίχτες (The Innocent and the Guilty), 2004 (translated into Serbian^[16] and Turkish^[17])
• Το δίκιο είναι ζόρικο πολύ (Justice is something very hard), 2010
• Έλα να πούμε ψέματα (Come, let us tell lies), 2014

Short fiction

• Η Πηγάδα (The Cauldron), 1974
• Πού ’ναι τα φτερά; (Where are the Wings?), 1975
• Καρέ φιξ (Carré Fixe), 1976
• Γιατί εμένα η ψυχή μου (Because my soul), 2012

Non-fiction

• Ο πεζογράφος και το πιθάρι του (The Writer and his Jar), 1992
• Τα μαύρα λουστρίνια (The Black Leather Shoes), 2005
• Τίποτα δεν χαρίζεται (Nothing is for granted), 2016

Theater

• Σας αρέσει ο Μπραμς; (Do you like Brahms?), 2001^[18]

Notes

External links

• Her entry for the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair (Greek)
• A page of her books at Patakis Publishers
• Her page at Ithaca Online
• Her page at the website of the Hellenic Authors' Society (Greek)