Jenny Mastoraki Explained

Jenny Mastoraki
Birth Date:	1949 2, df=y
Birth Place:	Zografou, Athens, Greece
Death Place:	Athens, Greece
Resting Place:	Zografou Cemetery, Athens
Nationality:	Greek
Children:	1
Occupation:	Poet, translator
Period:	1972–1989

Jenny Mastoraki (; 21 February 1949 – 30 July 2024) was a Greek poet and translator. She read Philology at the University of Athens.

She was the sister of filmmaker Nico Mastorakis.^[1]

She belonged to the Genia tou 70, a group of 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.

Mastoraki died in Athens on 30 July 2024, at the age of 75.^[2]

Poetry

• Διόδια (Tolls), 1972^[3]
• 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

• Salinger, J. D., Ο φύλακας στη σίκαλη (The Catcher in the Rye), 1978^[4]
• 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
• Lewis, Clive Staples, Το άλογο και το αγόρι του (The horse and the boy), 1994
• Kleist, Heinrich von, Οι μαριονέτες (Marionettes), 1996
• Lewis, Clive Staples, Το λιοντάρι, η μάγισσα και η ντουλάπα (The lion, the witch and the wardrobe), 1999
• Kane, Sarah, Καθαροί, πια (Cleansed), 2001
• Kane, Sarah, Λαχταρώ, 2003
• Marx, Karl, Εγκώμιο του εγκλήματος, (Praise of murder), 2005
• Machiavelli, Niccolo, Ο μανδραγόρας, 2008

External links

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

Notes and References

1. https://www.zappit.gr/enimerosi/nikos-mastorakis-efyge-apo-ti-zoi-i-aderfi-tou-i-poiitria-kai-metafrastria-tzeni-mastoraki/3486275 https://www.zappit.gr
2. Web site: Newsroom . 30 July 2024 . Πέθανε η σπουδαία ποιήτρια Τζένη Μαστοράκη . 30 July 2024 . Η ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ . greek.
3. https://archive.today/20130217201409/http://www.enet.gr/online/online_issues?pid=51&dt=30/07/2004&id=78918452
4. Dates of the first publication of the Greek translation