Her civil funeral will take place on Monday 24 April. Mirsini Zorbaaccording to her Facebook profile.

The ceremony will reportedly take place at 12:00. in Liberty Park, in the former ETA-ESA camp and now in the Museum of the Resistance to the Dictatorship, SFEA.

Mirsini Zorba served as Minister of Culture (August 2018 – July 2019), Member of the European Parliament (2000-2004), First Director of the National Book Center (1995-1999) and Publisher (Odysseus publications, 1973 – 1992).

She was born in Athens in 1949, studied at the Faculty of Law of the University of Athens (1968-1972) and received her Master of Philosophy of Law from the University of Rome as a Scholar of the Government of Italy (1973-1974).

Her doctoral dissertation is entitled “Public Policy on the Book” (University of Panteillon, 1992). He has taught cultural theory and politics at the University of Athens (1992-1995 and 2005-2007) and at the Greek Open University (2006-2012).

He founded the Children’s Rights Network (2004), a voluntary organization with a special focus on refugee children, for whom he also created the first school in the summer of 2015.

In 2022, the Sapienza University of Rome honored her with the Distinguished Alumnus and named the Laboratorio di Studi Neogreci of the Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies in her honor.

He resisted the dictatorship as a member of PAM, the Greco-European Youth Movement and the first edition of Anti.

She co-founded the publishing house Odysseus (1973), she translated and made Gramsci’s works famous in Greece.

In the post-colonial period, he was a member of the internal KKE, K.E. YOU (1987) and the State movement.

In 2000-2004, he was elected to the European Parliament for PASOK and participated in the European Socialist Group and the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture.

In 2009–2015, she succeeded Nikos Temelis as director of the political office of former Prime Minister Kostas Simitis.

In 2018, Alexis Tsipras invited him to the post of Minister of Culture.

He is the author of The Politics of Culture – Europe and Greece in the Second Half of the 20th Century (Patakis, 2014) and Andreas Papandreou, Cultural Portrait (Pole, 2019).

Her written work includes articles in foreign and Greek scientific journals, as well as in a Greek magazine and daily press. For publication: Notes from the Age of Expectations.

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