Maro Douka is one of the most important writers of the modern greek literature. She was born in 1947 in the city of Chania. In 1966, she moved in Athens where she still lives. Many of her works have been translated into other languages worlwide.
Nikos Gatsos was a notable Greek poet, translator and lyricist.
Nikos Gatsos was born in a small village of Peloponnese. Following high school, he moved to Athens, where he studied literature, philosophy, and history at the University of Athens for two years only. In Athens he entered the literary circles of the era and published his poems, small in extent and in a classic style, in the magazines Nea Estia (1931-32) and Rythmos (1933). During that period he also published criticism works for Makedonikes Imeres (Μακεδονικές Ημέρες), Rythmos (Ρυθμός), and Nea Grammata (Νέα Γράμματα) (for Kostis Bastias, Myrtiotissa, and Thrasos Kastanakis, respectively).
In 1935 he move to Paris, France and then to the South of France.
