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Reading Greece

Reading Greece

Reading Greece is a series of interviews featuring Greek writers and other stakeholders of the Greek book market. It forms part of Greek News Agenda, issued by the Public Diplomacy Secretariat of the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Reading Greece
📌Elias Papadimitrakopoulos, one of Greece’s leading #writers, passed away at the age of 94. A short story writer, or rather a creator of brief narratives, he has published twenty books and received a number of awards and distinctions, most recently from the Academy of Athens for his lifetime work in 2011, as well as the Grand State Letters Award in 2018. Papadimitrakopoulos combines his remarkably subtle gift for precision of language with the profound sensitivity and compassion for his subjects that has made his reputation as a master painter of the triste and ephemeral.Masterfully translated in English by John Taylor, his first two collections of short stories, Toothpaste with Chlorophyll (1973) and Maritime Hot Baths (1980) were first published in a single volume in 1992 and republished in 2020 by Coyote Arts. In the words of his translator, Papadimitrakopoulos’ stories are “highly polished gems reflecting the deeds, misdeeds and deep emotions of everyday life”. ... See MoreSee Less
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Reading Greece
🎉🎉Greece at the 38th Guadalajara International Book Fair in Mexico (30 November to 8 December 2024), the most important international gathering of the Spanish-speaking publishing world and the largest book fair in Latin America. The Greek Pavilion will host about 35 #publishers, cultural organizations and institutions, and will showcase publications, both in Greek and in other languages, of the Ministry of Culture and its supervised institutions, cultural institutions and publishing houses, Greek and foreign, that publish translations of Greek #books, as well as books published in other languages in the framework of the GreekLit platform funded by Hellenic Ministry of Culture.Greece - International Book FairsΥπουργείο Πολιτισμού ... See MoreSee Less
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