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.
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.«Καβάφεια» σε Δούκα, Μέσκο She has also been awarded the N. Themelis prize for her last novel Έλα να πούμε ψέματα.Στην Μάρω Δούκα το Βραβείο Νίκου Θέμελη
She is a founding member of the Hellenic Authors' Society.ΜΑΡΩ ΔΟΥΚΑ|ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΑ ΣΥΓΓΡΑΦΕΩΝ At the 2014 local elections, she was elected to the City Council of Athens under the "Anoihti Poli" Syriza ticket,Υποψήφιοι/ες 2014 led by the candidate Gabriel Sakellaridis.
Works
Novels Η αρχαία σκουριά (Fool's Gold), 1979 (translated into English,Kedros French,Actes Sud Italian,Argo Editrice Serbian and Albanian). Η πλωτή πόλη (The Floating City), 1983 (translated into GermanAmazon.de: Die Schwimmende Stadt: Maro Douka: Bücher) Οι λεύκες ασάλευτες (The Immobile Aspens), 1987 Εις τον πάτο της εικόνας (At the Bottom of the Picture), 1990 (translated into FrenchLittérature Grecque) Ένας σκούφος από πορφύρα (Come Forth, King), 1995 (translated into EnglishCome forth, King and Italian) Ουράνια μηχανική (Celestial Mechanics), 1999 (translated into Italian) Αθώοι και φταίχτες (The Innocent and the Guilty), 2004 (translated into Serbian,Douka wins Balkanika TurkishDoğan Kitap - Tarihî Roman / Anlatı - Masumlar ve Suçlular and LithuanianBALTO leidybos namai Nekaltieji ir kaltininkai – Maro Douka) 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 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?), 2001ΜΕΤΑΙΧΜΙΟ
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)