While she was there, she was introduced to the modern movements of Western philosophy, such as nihilism and the Theatre of the Absurd, as well as writers of existential agony, such as Albert Camus, Kafka, Samuel Beckett.

[7] His 1967 play "Oh les beaux jours" staged at Odeon Theatre in Paris deeply influenced her to ask him for permission to translate it into Greek.

In 1996 this play, translated in English by Minoas Pothos and Rhoda Kaufman, was staged in California State university, Hayward,[16][17][18] 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.

[29] In 2002, the Mystic Passage was translated into English by Theony Condos with a preface by Apostolos Athanassakis[30] and published in the New York university magazine, The Charioteer.

[33] Since then all her work has entered a metaphysical dimension and as quoted by her "she constantly searches for the truth and knowledge beyond conventional reality in order to achieve transcendence and discover the internal light".

[36] In October 2017, the Municipality of Lemnos donated to her a hall named "Maria Lampadaridou Pothou" at a recently renovated mansion, to house her precious things of her work (awards, medals, letters of Elytis and Beckett, doctoral dissertations).

[37] In 2019, Maria's theatrical play titled Hector, Beloved by the Gods was staged at the Ancient theatre of Hephestia in Lemnos at the end of the international archeological conference on 15 September.

[40] On 17 July 2020, her historical novel The Wooden Wall was selected by the Permanent Representation of Greece to the EU for their “Readers of Europe reading list” initiative of the Council of the European Union.

She has also published numerous articles, critical reviews, and essays, in literary journals and daily newspapers, “To Vima”, “Kathimerini”, “Eleftherotypia” for many years.

Her theatrical plays that have been staged in Greece and abroad include A game with time, I am a weeping star, The rafts, The Glass Box..[46] The latter was also taught in Sorbonne by professor Charles Antonetti and was published in the magazine education et theatre.

[55][56] Antigone or the Nostalgia of Tragedy Electra' s Dance Paper Moon Bidding you Farewell The Glass Box Hector, beloved by the gods