The poet Maria Laina, who was born in Patras in 1947, passed away on Wednesday, December 27, at 4:30 p.m., after a short hospitalization. Graduated from the Law Department 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 represented Greece many times officially in the USA and in Europe.

In 1993 she was awarded the State Prize for poetry 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 Ourani Foundation for her entire work. In 2023 he received the Great State Prize for Letters. Founding member of the Society of Writers.

Ergografia

Poetry

Coming of age, Athens 1968Then, Cedar 1970Change of scenery, Cedar 1972Punctuation, Cedar 1979, Moment 1991 Hers, Texts 1985Pink 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