He passed away at the age of 76
He died on Wednesday, December 27, at 4:30 p.m., after a short hospitalization, poetess Maria Laina, born in Patras in 1947. Law graduate of the University of Athens. He worked in various jobs, always related to art (translation of essays and literature, editing of visual, philosophical and literary books, broadcasts and scripts in the state radio-television, teaching Greek language and poetry in English-speaking colleges, teaching translation, journalism in literary inserts newspapers).
Her work includes nine poetry collections, eleven plays, five prose works, four reviews and studies, compilation of an anthology of foreign poetry of the 20th century (selection from Greek translations). Her works have been translated into many languages, independently and in anthologies. He officially represented Greece many times in the USA and in Europe, it was pointed out in APE BEE.
In 1993 she was honored with the State Poetry Prize for her poetry collection Rodinos phopos. The German translation of the same collection won the prize of the City of Munich. In 1996 he was also honored with the Cavafy Prize and in 1998 with the Maria Callas Prize of the 3rd program of the Greek Radio.
In 2014 she was honored with the Award of the Kostas and Eleni Ouranis Foundation for her entire work. In 2023 he received the Great State Prize for Letters. Founding member of the Society of Writers.
Ergografia
Poetry
Adulthood, Athens 1968
Epecina, Cedar 1970
Change of scenery, Cedar 1972
Punctuation, Cedar 1979,
Moment 1991
Hers, Texts 1985
Pink Fear, Moment 1992, Vlek. 1994
Here, Kastaniotis 2003
The Garden – Not me, Kastaniotis 2005
Mixed media, Patakis 2012
Whatever happened, Pataki, 2020
Prose
The Seven Souls, short story, Vol. Small Zoology, Patakis 1998
Avarice, short story, Vol. Eight Deadly Sins, Patakis, 2000
Until death, short story, Patakis 2001,
Polydori, ed. Ta Nea 2005
The Meaning (Comedy-Act one), Kastaniotis 2007
How beautiful life is (short story), Pataki, 2020
