Jenny Mastoraki

Jenny Mastoraki was a Greek poet.

Biography

Born in Athens, 1949. Studied Byzantine and Medieval Literature and emerged as a leading figure of the Genia tou '70—a literary generation shaped by the final years of the Greek military dictatorship and the early period of Metapolitefsi.
First appeared in the Anti-Anthology of Dimitris Iatropoulos, with a collection of poems called The Synaxarion of St. Youth.
She published four books of poetry, and belonged to the Genia tou 70, a group of Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 and at the first years of the Metapolitefsi. She also translated works from English- and German-language authors into Greek.
She has received three prizes for translation. The Thornton Niven Wilder Prize in 1989, the IBBY Prize for C.S. Lewis’ The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in 1992, and the Hellenic Theatre Museum Prize, for Howard Barker's The Dying of Today, in 2011.
In 2020 Mastoraki received the «National Literary Award».
Mastoraki died in Athens on 30 July 2024, at the age of 75.

Διόδια, 1972Το σόι, 1978Ιστορίες για τα βαθιά, 1983Μ' ένα στεφάνι φως, 1989