Jenny Mastoraki

Jenny Mastoraki
Born	1949 Athens
Occupation	Poet, translator
Nationality	Greek
Period	1972–

Jenny Mastoraki (Greek: Τζένη Μαστοράκη) (b. Athens, 1949) is a Greek poet and translator. She read Philology at the University of Athens.

She belongs to the Genia tou 70, which is a term used to describe Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and at the first years of the Metapolitefsi.

Poetry

• Διόδια (Tolls), 1972^[1]
• Το σόι (The kin), 1978
• Ιστορίες για τα βαθιά (Tales of the deep), 1983
• Μ' ένα στεφάνι φως (With a garland of light), 1989

Selected translations

• Sallinger, J.D., Ο φύλακας στη σίκαλη (The Catcher in the Rye), 1978^[2]
• McCullers, Carson, Πρόσκληση σε γάμο (The Member of the Wedding), 1981
• Canetti, Elias, Η τύφλωση (Die Blendung), 1985
• Böll, Heinrich, Οι απόψεις ενός κλόουν (Ansichten eines Clowns), 1986
• Highet, Gilbert, Η κλασική παράδοση (The Classical Tradition), 1988
• Poe, Edgar Allan, Λιγεία (Ligeia), 1991

External links

• A blog dedicated to her poetry
• Her page at the website of the Hellenic Authors' Society
• Her works at Kedros Publishers

Notes

1. ^ http://www.enet.gr/online/online_issues?pid=51&dt=30/07/2004&id=78918452 A short text on its background (Greek)
2. ^ Dates of the first publication of the Greek translation

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Name	Mastoraki, Jenny
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Date of birth	1949
Place of birth	Athens
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