birth_place nationality birth_date period article_title name occupation
chania , greece greek 1947 1974 & ndash ; present maro douka
 maro douka novelist
maro douka

maro douka -lrb- ; born 1947 -rrb- 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 '' -lrb- declining the latter -rrb- . ''
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 .
