The dream promised her to return back and flew out of the window to go to sleep
and you never know... probably to dream as well....   - Maria Schubert -

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Radio Art is very pleased to present a young and very promising writer, Maria Schubert.

At 29 years of age, she has already written 3 excellent novels.

Maria writes beautifully, with literary transparency and a direct style. Her talent is indisputable.
Her books examine the age-long questions that have tortured the human mind.

She uses paradox, fantasy and departures from reality, as well as a revealing black humour,
to aim right to the heart of problems.

In her flowing prose, Maria manages to take readers on a magical trip, while also enticing them to expect the
revelation of all the unsaid and unseen. These are all elements that make her books truly fascinating.

- Lambros Mitropoulos -

Her first book, “Ta prasina, ta kastana kai ta mavra matia” (Green, brown and black eyes), is about an unexpected error of the Fates that changes a girl’s life. Moving the sphere of magic realism and fantastic literature, the book interweaves the heroine’s live with the forces of destiny. The plot links a father’s cruelty, a mother’s hesitations, the hostility of a village and the love of a daughter. Can anyone ever change their destiny?

Her second book, “Club Kylikeio” (Canteen Club) reflects the boredom, asphyxiation and absence of ideals of a generation dazzled by easy money and gradually…. anesthetized. The book’s heroes are “people next door”. People who are carefree or concerned, happy or sad, people with many secrets, some of them not so well-kept. Armed with
her sense of humour, the writer attempts to describe the daily life of the new generation, its stalemates, the hopes
that are born only to die the next moment, the ever-mutating psyche of humans. She seems to want to tell us that nothing remains the same, everything changes, but not necessarily in the right direction. Besides, which is the right direction, and who can determine it?

– Lakis Fourouklas -

In her third and most recent book, “I Rosa sti Mesi” (Rosa in the Middle), the writer depicts the process of writing a book, with a chaotic but lively mood, when the writer has had the carpet pulled out under his feet; the basic principle, however, is still man in general, beyond any categorizations. With her constant ironic style combined with an unusual literary, simple and direct prose, as well as a dose of modest and at the same time unrefined surrealism, Maria Schubert’s “Rosa in the Middle” is a book pulsing with black humour.

- Dimitris Athinakis -

 “Rosa in the Middle”

New potential writer.
The pride of Greek and international literature.
Nobel prize candidate.
Swamped pencil-pusher.
Hospital inmate.
Lunatic interlocutor.
Inhabitant of suspicious hotels and garbage bins. Security guard. Bank clerk.
Investigator of Satanist ceremonies.
Old friend.
The same person or multiple persons?
Where does truth lie?
Rosa in the middle.
And the truth, too.

Because no-one knows where self-sarcasm will lead them. No-one can know, perhaps ever, where the sea
of passion will take them.
But even this might not be important in the end.

Maria Schubert

Maria Schubert was born in Munich in 1979.
She studied Theatre Science and completed a Master’s Degree at the School of Media and Culture of the Pantion University in Greece.

Books by the author:
Ta prasina, ta kastana kai ta mavra matia (Green, brown and black eyes), Polis, 1999
“Club Kylikeio” (Canteen Club), Kedros, 2003
“I Rosa sti Mesi” (Rosa in the Middle), Melani, 2008

Short stories by the author have been published in literary reviews (To dentro, Na ena milo, Mandragoras, (de)kata).