Maria Fakinou

For Maria Fakinou, literature serves as a way to explore the intricacies of personal and collective memory and how they subliminally define, shape, and distort the present. Born in 1976, Fakinou studied journalism and translation before making the leap to fiction writing. She first emerged on the Greek literary scene in 2007 with The Whim of Mrs. N., followed by the novella The Beginning of Evil in 2012 and A Daughter’s Anatomy in 2017. Her latest novel, The Bogart Scale, is her most mature work yet, a stream-of-consciousness narrative featuring the daughter of a torturer for the Greek Junta (1967-1973). Fakinou is also the Greek translator of major English-language works by innovative women writers, such as Maggie Nelson, Sally Rooney, Ann Enright, Leonora Carrington, and Betty Smith.