1. Maria Polydouri was a Greek poet who belonged to the school of Neo-romanticism.
17 Facts About Maria Polydouri
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Maria Polydouri was the daughter of the philologist Eugene Polydouris and Kyriaki Markatou, a woman with early feminist beliefs.
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Maria Polydouri completed her high school studies in Kalamata, and had gone to school in Gytheio and Filiatra, as well as in Arsakeio in Athens for two years.
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Maria Polydouri was a contemporary of Kostas Karyotakis, with whom she had a desperate but incomplete love affair.
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Maria Polydouri immediately informed Polydouri about this and asked her to end their relationship.
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Maria Polydouri proposed to marry without having children, but he was too proud to accept the sacrifice.
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Maria Polydouri doubted his sincerity and felt that his illness was a pretext to leave her.
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Maria Polydouri lost her job in the public sector after repeated absences and dropped out of Law School.
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Maria Polydouri studied at the Kounallaki Drama School and even managed to appear as an actress in a play, "The Little Rag", for which she had the lead role.
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Maria Polydouri studied dressmaking but could not work because she contracted tuberculosis.
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Maria Polydouri returned to Athens in 1928 and was hospitalized at Sotiria Hospital, where she learned about the suicide of her former lover, Kostas Karyotakis.
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Maria Polydouri left two prose works, her diary and an untitled novel in which she attacked the conservatism and hypocrisy of the time.
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Maria Polydouri died of tuberculosis on the morning of 29 April 1930, after a series of morphine injections that were given to her by a friend in Christomanos Clinic.
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Maria Polydouri belongs to the generation of 1920, which fostered the feeling of dissatisfaction and decline.
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Maria Polydouri's poetry is a concise source of lyricism that breaks in deep sorrow and sometimes grief, with obvious influences from the love of her life, Kostas Karyotakis, but laments from Mani.
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The Collected Works of Maria Polydouri released for the first time in the 1960s by Estia Press, curated by Lili Zografou.
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Maria Polydouri's poems have been translated to Bulgarian, Catalan, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Macedonian, Romanian, Spanish and Swedish.