Maro Douka
The Anthos Library welcomes Maro Douka, one of the most distinguished Greek novelists, on Sunday 8 May at 6pm at the Café of Fougaro for the presentation of her new book, Nothing is given to you, released by Patakis Press.
The author and Yannis Stamos will talk about the book.
Nothing is given to you: something between diary entries, confession, essay, testimony, vignette, exercise, chronicle, study. Texts of love: from Manolis Anagnostakis to Georgios Μ. Vizyinos. For Yannis Ritsos, Alexandros Kotzias, Stratis Tsirkas, Vassilis Vassilikos, Tasos Livaditis. Talking to children: Why do we read literature? For Yannis Tsarouchis, Dionysios Solomos, Kostas Tachtsis, Stratis Tsirkas again, Dido Sotiriou, Pavlos Zannas, M. Karagatsis, Yannis Kontos, Andreas Frangias, Manos Hadjidakis, Yorgos Ioannou.
"Even then, so many years back, even today, after so many years, I wrote for myself—I write for myself. In order to be able to throw glances back and ahead. To raise or lower the volume. To talk with those persistent, invisible, ungraspable things. To give refuge to the discarded, the disused, the pained. To look after the stray, the homeless, the un-dissolved! Just as then, so many years back, so it is today… my need to think, to resist, to exist, to coexist. For yes, even if I didn't know it already, I learned it the slow and hard way: Nothing is given to you". MD
Admission free
Maro Douka
Maro Douka was born in 1947 in Chania. She has been awarded the "Nikos Kazantzakis Award" of the City of Herakleion for the novel Archaia Skouria, the 2nd State Prize of Literature for the novel Ploti Poli and the Kostas Ouranis Award of the Academy of Athens for the novel Athooi kai Ftechtes; the same work has won also the Balkanika and Cavafy Awards. Her novel Ela na poume psemata won the "Nikos Themelis Award" of the Anagnostis e-zine. Her short stories and novels have been translated into many European languages.
