70s She was living still in Paris, when a military regime was established in Greece. It was then that she wrote her theatrical play Antigone - Or the nostalgia of tragedy. This play was particularly loved by the distinguished theatrologist Bernard Dort, who happened to be her professor at Sorbonne. In 1996 this play, translated in English by Minoas Pothos and Rhoda Kaufman, was staged in California State university, Hayward, in parallel with the literary event of the Greek Culture week. Rhoda Kaufman also edited a collection of the writer's plays and poetry published under the name "A woman of Lemnos" by guernica publications. Minoas Pothos with Theony Condos also translated her novel Natalia and Christina published by Lume Books in 2016. When she returned to Greece in 1967, life was hard for her, as she was attending the demonstrations organised in support of Greece by the French philhellene Jacques Lacarrière. She did not hesitate to propose her work The Dance of Electra, a recently written allegorical depiction of the Greek junta, to the National Theatre. This work was at first rejected as “dangerous” but was finally staged at the New Stage of The National Theatre after a lot of effort, with police custody. The play's music was composed by Stavros Xarhakos and the scenography was made by Dionysis Photopoulos. In 1972, Maria was married to Minoas Pothos and they had a son, Emmanuel in 1973. In 1973, she submitted her resignation to the Ministry and focused on her writing career. In 1987 she was awarded by the Academy of Athens for her historical novel Maroula of Lemnos. In 1989 she published one of her most important collections of poetry, Mystic Passage. The book was translated into French and prefaced by Jacque Lacarrière and published in France by Le Temps qu'il Fait in 1995. Later, it was translated into Swedish, prefaced by Ingemar Rhedin and published by Bonniers in 1996 with good reviews. In 2002, the Mystic Passage was translated into English by Theony Condos with a preface by Apostolos Athanassakis and published in the New York university magazine, The Charioteer. Later years In 1973, she submitted her resignation to the Ministry in order to focus on her family and books. In 1976 she experienced the loss of her second child. Since then all her work has entered a metaphysical dimension and as quoted by her "she constantly searches for