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| Born | 1947 Chania, Greece |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Greek |
| Period | 1974–present |
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.
