Maro Douka

Maro Douka 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 Greek [military junta of 1967-1974|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. Αθώοι και φταίχτες, was awarded the Balkanika Prize for Literature, the Kostas and Eleni Ouranis Prize of the Academy of [Athens (modern)|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 Greek [local elections, 2014|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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