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Maro Douka
Maro Douka ( el, 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. 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. She has also been awarded the N. Themelis prize for her last novel ''Έλα να πούμε ψέματα''. She is a founding me ...
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Constantine Cavafy
Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Πέτρου Καβάφης ; April 29 (April 17, OS), 1863 – April 29, 1933), known, especially in English, as Constantine P. Cavafy and often published as C. P. Cavafy (), was a Greek poet, journalist, and civil servant from Alexandria. His work, as one translator put it, "holds the historical and the erotic in a single embrace." Cavafy's friend E. M. Forster, the novelist and literary critic, introduced his poems to the English-speaking world in 1923, famously describing him as "a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe." Cavafy's consciously individual style earned him a place among the most important figures not only in Greek poetry, but in Western poetry as a whole. Cavafy wrote 155 poems, while dozens more remained incomplete or in sketch form. During his lifetime, he consistently refused to formally publish his work and preferred to share it through lo ...
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Cretan Novelists
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Greek Women Writers
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Greek Women Novelists
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National And Kapodistrian University Of Athens Alumni
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Lithuanian Language
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Turkish Language
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Syriza
The Coalition of the Radical Left – Progressive Alliance ( el, Συνασπισμός Ριζοσπαστικής Αριστεράς – Προοδευτική Συμμαχία, Synaspismós Rizospastikís Aristerás – Proodeftikí Simachía), best known by the syllabic abbreviation SYRIZA (, el, ΣΥΡΙΖΑ ; a pun on the Greek adverb , meaning "from the roots" or "radically"), is a left-wing political party in Greece. It was founded in 2004 as a political coalition of left-wing and radical left parties, and registered as a political party in 2012. A left-wing populist, democratic socialist, progressive and social democratic party, Syriza holds a pro-Europeanist stance. Syriza also advocates for alter-globalisation, feminism, LGBT rights, and secularism. Syriza is the second largest party in the Hellenic Parliament. Party chairman Alexis Tsipras served as Prime Minister of Greece from 26 January 2015 to 20 August 2015 and from 21 September 2015 to 8 July 2019. It is a ...
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