Maro Douka
Maro Douka (born 1947) is a Greek novelist. She has lived in Athens since 1966 and she studied 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.
Maro Douka
- Name
- Maro Douka
- Born
- 1947
- Birthplace
- Chania, Greece
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Nationality
- Greece
- Fields
- literature
- Education
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Languages
- Modern Greek
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Maro Douka (born 1947) is a Greek novelist. She has lived in Athens since 1966 and she studied 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.
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Maro Douka (born 1947) is a historian and writer, of Greek nationality. The historian was born in Chania.
Maro Douka was educated at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The historian is a member of Hellenic Authors' Society. Activity centred on literature. Languages used include Modern Greek.
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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, the Kostas and Eleni Ouranis Prize of the Academy of Athens and the Cavafy prize. She has also been awarded the N. Themelis prize for her last novel Έλα να πούμε ψέματα. She is a founding member of the Hellenic Authors' Society. At the 2014 local elections, she was elected to the City Council of Athens under the "Anoihti Poli" Syriza ticket, led by the candidate Gabriel Sakellaridis.
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Key facts
• Name — Maro Douka • Born — 1947 • Birthplace — Chania, Greece • Occupation — Novelist • Period — 1974–present
Novels
Novels
• Η αρχαία σκουριά (Fool's Gold), 1979 (translated into English, French, Italian, Serbian and Albanian). • 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, Turkish and Lithuanian) • Το δίκιο είναι ζόρικο πολύ (Justice is something very hard), 2010 • Έλα να πούμε ψέματα (Come, let us tell lies), 2014 • Πύλη Εισόδου, 2019 • Να είχα, λέει, μια τρομπέτα, 2022
Short fiction
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
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
Theater
• Σας αρέσει ο Μπραμς; (Do you like Brahms?), 2001
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- 1.Μάρω Δούκα - Έκθεση βιβλίου της Φραγκφούρτης 2001 - Ελλάδα τιμώμενη χώρα.
- 2.Συμφωνία, Εαρινή. Εαρινή Συμφωνία: Το βραβείο Μπαλκάνικα στη Μάρω Δούκα. Εαρινή Συμφωνία. October 30, 2006.
- 3.Macedonian Press Agency: News in Greek, 05-12-30. www.hri.org.
- 4.«Καβάφεια» σε Δούκα, Μέσκο
- 5.Στην Μάρω Δούκα το Βραβείο Νίκου Θέμελη
- 6.ΜΑΡΩ ΔΟΥΚΑ|ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΑ ΣΥΓΓΡΑΦΕΩΝ
- 7.Υποψήφιοι/ες 2014
- 8.Kedros
- 9.Actes Sud
- 10.Argo Editrice
- 11.Amazon.de: Die Schwimmende Stadt: Maro Douka: Bücher
- 12.Littérature Grecque
- 13.Come forth, King
- 14.Collana Aristea - vols. 1-5.
- 15.Collana Aristea - vols. 21-25.
- 16.Douka wins Balkanika
- 17.Doğan Kitap - Tarihî Roman / Anlatı - Masumlar ve Suçlular
- 18.BALTO leidybos namai Nekaltieji ir kaltininkai – Maro Douka
- 19.ΜΕΤΑΙΧΜΙΟ
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