Jenny Mastoraki (; born 1949) is a

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and

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. She read

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at the

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...

. She belongs to the Genia tou 70, a group of

authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the

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and at the first years of the

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Poetry

* ''Διόδια'' (Tolls), 1972 * ''Το σόι'' (The kin), 1978 * ''Ιστορίες για τα βαθιά'' (Tales of the deep), 1983 * ''Μ' ένα στεφάνι φως'' (With a garland of light), 1989

Selected translations

* Salinger, J. D., ''Ο φύλακας στη σίκαλη'' (

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), 1978Dates of the first publication of the Greek translation * McCullers, Carson, ''Πρόσκληση σε γάμο'' (

The Member of the Wedding ''The Member of the Wedding'' is a 1946 novel by Southern writer Carson McCullers. It took McCullers five years to complete, although she interrupted the work for a few months to write the novella '' The Ballad of the Sad Café''.McDowell, Marga ...

), 1981 * Canetti, Elias, ''Η τύφλωση'' (Die Blendung), 1985 * Böll, Heinrich, ''Οι απόψεις ενός κλόουν'' (Ansichten eines Clowns), 1986 * Highet, Gilbert, ''Η κλασική παράδοση'' (The Classical Tradition), 1988 * Poe, Edgar Allan, ''Λιγεία'' (

Ligeia "Ligeia" () is an early short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1838. The story follows an unnamed narrator and his wife Ligeia, a beautiful and intelligent raven-haired woman. She falls ill, composes "The Conqueror Wor ...

), 1991 * Lewis, Clive Staples, ''Το άλογο και το αγόρι του'' (The horse and the boy), 1994 * Kleist, Heinrich von, ''Οι μαριονέτες'' (Marionettes), 1996 * Lewis, Clive Staples, ''Το λιοντάρι, η μάγισσα και η ντουλάπα'' (The lion, the witch and the wardrobe), 1999 * Kane, Sarah, Καθαροί, πια'' (

Cleansed ''Cleansed'' is the third play by the English playwright Sarah Kane. It was first performed in 1998 at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs in London. The play is set in a university which (according to the blurb of the published script) is op ...

), 2001 * Kane, Sarah, Λαχταρώ, 2003 *

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, ''Εγκώμιο του εγκλήματος'', (Praise of murder), 2005 * Machiavelli, Niccolo, ''Ο μανδραγόρας'', 2008

Notes

External links

A blog dedicated to her poetry

Her page at the website of the Hellenic Authors' Society

Her works at Kedros Publishers
1949 births Living people National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni Greek women writers Greek women poets Writers from Athens {{translator-stub