{"id":6147,"date":"2025-11-11T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/?post_type=team&#038;p=6147"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:36:14","slug":"maria-fakinou","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/authors\/maria-fakinou\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Fakinou"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6147\" class=\"elementor elementor-6147 elementor-5646\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e30efd2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e30efd2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-71da41c\" data-id=\"71da41c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dedb5c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dedb5c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span>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\u00a0<\/span><em>The Whim of Mrs. N.<\/em><span>, followed by the novella\u00a0<\/span><em>The Beginning of Evil<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span>in 2012 and\u00a0<\/span><em>A Daughter\u2019s Anatomy<\/em><span>\u00a0in 2017. Her latest novel,\u00a0<\/span><em>The Bogart Scale<\/em><span>, 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.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0The Whim of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5740,"menu_order":150,"template":"","team_category":[88,73],"class_list":["post-6147","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team_category-author"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/6147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/6147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6151,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/6147\/revisions\/6151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_category?post=6147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}