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])