Rosita Sokou

**Rosita Sokou** (, *Zoi Maria (Rozita) Sokou*; 9 September 1923 – 14 December 2021) was a Greek journalist, author, playwright and translator. Sokou was one of the first women journalists in Greece. From 1977–1983 she became a celebrity as part of a panel in the TV Show *Na I Efkeria*. In 1992–1993 she went on to host her own TV show at New Channel called *Visitors at Night*. 

Sokou died from COVID-19 in Athens, on 14 December 2021, at the age of 98.

## Works
### Articles
**Newspapers**
* Oi kairoi (1948–50)
* Anexartisia (1949)
* Vradini (1949–1955)
* Athens News (1952–1960)
* Kathimerini (1953–1957 and 1960–1967, 1974–1987)
* Mesimvrini (1961–1965)
* Acropolis (1969-
* Apoghevmatini (1970–2005)
* Ethnos tis Kyriakis
* Kosmos tou ependyti

**Magazines**
* Hollywood (1946)
* Eikones (1953–1957 and 1961–1967)
* Ekloghi  (1955–1961)
* Epikaira (1967)
* Proto (1967–68)
* Paidi kai Neoi goneis
* Tilerama (1984–2005)

### TV and radio shows
**Radio**
* "Lithoi kai keramoi" – with Kostas Ferris
* "Episkeptes tis nichtas" – with various guests

**TV**
* "Na i efkairia" (Here is your chance)  (1977–1983) member of the panel
* "Oneira sto fos : Na i efkairia – new version" 1997 at Channel 5
* "Oi episkeptes tis nychtas" (The night visitors) (1992–1993) New Channel

**Films**
* Pros tin eleftheria (by Haris Papadopoulos) 1996

### Translations
**Books and comics**
* Bergman: The trilogy of silence (3 screenplays) Ed. Galaxias
* Bergman: Three screenplays “Wild strawberries”, “The seventh seal” Ed. Galaxias, reprinted by ed. Hermias, 
* Aldous Huxley: The genius and the goddess
* Stanislaw Lem: Cyberiad (1979) ed. Kaktos
* Stanislaw Lem: Solaris (1961) ed. Kastaniotis
* Isaac Asimov: I, robot ed. Galaxias
* Fantastika diighimata (Anthology of Science Fiction short stories) Ed. Galaxias, 1961
* Chanel la solitaire Ed. Galaxias
* Charensol: Histoire du cinema  Ed. Papyros-Larousse
* Corto Maltese (many titles) for Mammouth Comics editions

**Theatre**
* Shock – by Sam Shepard  1995
* Sea View – by Edward Albee 1996
* Harvest – by Manjula Padmanabhan (with I. Maradei) – 1988
* Jesabel – by Jean Anouilh (with I. Maradei)- 1999

### Theatrical adaptions
* Lenz, from the work of Georg Büchner
* The Portrait of Dorian Gray – from Oscar Wilde's novella 1977, for Dimitri Potamitis, also produced in 2000 with Stratos Tzortzoglou in the leading role

### Original writings
* The encephalopod – S.F. short story, first published in “Italia domani” magazine (Rome, 1960) and, in Greek, in the “Ekloghi” magazine #183 (19-6-1960)
* *Nureyev* – about her first meeting with the famous dancer/choreographer Ed. Kaktos, Athens, 1982
* *Anastassios* – a profile of the late ballet dancer Anastasios Vitoros Ed. Kaktos, Athens, 1985
* *Nureyev – as I knew him* – expanded version, a full biography, with the collaboration of Irene Maradei Ed. Kaktos, Athens, 2003 
* *Quai Voltaire* – theatrical play Ed. Hatzinikoli, Athens, 1990–91
* *Mario and I*, about singer Mario Frangoulis Ed. Kastaniotis, December 2005 
* ''Rosita's Century'', a 2-volume autobiography edited by her daughter Irene Maradei. Ed. Odos Panos, November 2018 

## References
## Other websites
* Bibliography