Rosita Sokou Net Worth is
$15 Million

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Rosita Sokou is a Greek journalist, writer, playwright, translator. Her dad, Georgios Sokos, was a journalist, editor and playwright from Aitoliko who died in age 44, right before the battle. Her mom Titika Michailidou originated from Smyrna. Rosita-Maria-Zoe (her name)was created in Athens, Greece, on Sept 9th, 1923. She graduated in the Arsakeio College in Psychiko. Through the battle and job she perfected her French and British. She attended the institution of Great Arts, was a pupil of painter [[Yannis Tsarouchis]] and in addition went to the Vassilis Rotas Dilemma School, while functioning from a sensitive age being a translator and a spanish teacher. Following the end from the German Job and Civil Battle, in 1947, she examined 20th century books in Oxford. Among the initial females journalists in Greece, she started her profession like a film critic in 1946, composing in papers such as for example Vradini, Kathimerini, Acropolis, Ethnos, Apoghevmatini as well as the English-language Athens Information, as well for numerous publications and regularly attended film celebrations in Cannes, Venice, Thessaloniki etc. From your 70s, she extended to theater criticism and different additional columns. After her relationship to Italian journalist and writer Manlio Maradei, she resided in Rome, Italy, from 1957 to 1961, but returned to reside in Greece with her child. In 1967, following the onset from the armed service dictatorship, editor Eleni Vlahou shut her press (the “Kathimerini” newspapers and “Eikones” publication), in protest against the suppressed independence from the press, and flew to London. Rosita was remaining jobless, and with a little child to supply for. However she was among the only two different people (the additional one was Freddie Germanos) who refused to sew Vlahou and have for problems – because of this she confronted the disciplinary table from the Journalists’ Union and threatened to become expelled from your Union. She kept fast: receiving to indication the lawsuit designed to notice that Vlahou’s state (that it had been impossible to possess press worth its name in Greece) was unsubstantial. They were hard years, where she worked editing and enhancing encyclopedias, translating, and lastly ended up doing work for the Botsis papers, Acropolis and Apoghevmatini. By the end from the 8-12 months dictatorship, Eleni Vlahou returned to Greece and opened up “Kathimerini” once again, and Rosita collaborated sporadically beneath the pseudonym of Irene Stavrou. Through the period 1977-1983 she became a celebrity because of the TV display “Na I Efkeria” (“Here’s your prospect”, a Greek version of “Opportunity knocks”), where she was an associate of the -panel evaluating the candidates. We were holding the early times of TV, as well as the market response was unparalleled. In 1992-93 she hosted her very own Television show at Νew Route. She’s translated many books – amongst others [Aldous Huxley], [Ingmar Bergman], [Isaac Asimov] and Stanisław Lem – reflecting her own preferences and interests, aswell as comics like the “Corto Maltese” series by Hugo Pratt. She’s translated, edited and up to date the two-volume “Movie theater” encyclopedia by Georges Charensol, adding a complete new section on Greek movie theater. Since 1974 she started her deeper involvement with theatre, writing the play The Family portrait of Dorian Gray (predicated on Oscar Wilde’s novella), and adapting Georg Büchner’s ”Lenz” for the Dimitri Potamitis’ Experimental Theatre. Down the road, she translated Sam Shepard’s ‘Surprise’ and Edward Albee’s ‘Ocean Watch’ for Yorgos’ Messalas. As well as her little girl, she translated Manjula Padmanabhan’s ‘Harvest’ that was honored 1st prize on the Onassis International Theater Competition in 1998 and Jean Anouilh’s ‘Jesabel’ for Jenny Roussea’s troupe in 1999. She’s been given the medal “Chevalier de l’ Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” on her behalf services to movie theater by the France federal government (1986), and awarded with the Botsis Base (1988) on her behalf give to Greek journalism.

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