For my Soul was Free of Hope…

Maro Douka was born in 1947 in Chania, Crete. She has been living in Athens since 1966. Her first book, containing the novellas «The Well» and «Some people», was published in 1974 (Kedros Publishers), followed by another novella, a collection of short stories and eight novels. She was awarded the Nikos Kazantzakis Prize for her novel «Fool's Gold», was given a National Book Award for the novel «The Floating City», and the Costas Ouranis Prose Fiction Award by the Academy of Athens as well as the 2006 Balkanika Award for her novel «The Innocent and the Guilty». Her short stories and novels have been translated into many European languages.