Reading Greece: Esmeralda Geka – “I feel that myths do what poetry does: they summarize and elevate depth”
Esmeralda Geka was born in Athens. She studied Law at the Law School of Athens and holds a...
Read More
Category: Reading Greece
Reading Greece: Sissy Doutsiou– “The performative aspect of writing breaks down the artificial barriers between different forms of expression”
Sissy Doutsiou is an actor, a founding member of the Institute for Experimental Arts and curatior...
Read More
BOOK OF THE MONTH: “Chimera” by Phoebe Giannisi
Chimera in ancient Greek is a composite being, a creature where different species meet inside one...
Read More
Reading Greece:Vasia Tzanakari on the Meeting Point between Writing and Translation
Vasia Tzanakari was born in Serres, Greece. She studied English Literature in Thessaloniki and...
Read More
Reading Greece: Eveline Mineur on Greek-Dutch Cultural and Literary Encounters
Eveline Mineur (1997) is a translator of modern and contemporary Greek literature and an...
Read More
Reading Greece: Modern Greek Literature at a Glance
“For poetry there exist neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all...
Read More
Reading Greece: Niki Troullinou – “A Literary Text Can Hurt Us, Upset Us, Take Us on Journeys and Quests beyond Mere Pleasure”
Niki Troullinou was born in Chania, Crete, and lives in Heraklion. She studied Law in Athens,...
Read More
Book of the Month: “Birds in the Night” by Stamatis Polenakis
The poetry collection Birds in the Night, the latest writing venture of distinguished poet...
Read More
Recent Posts
5,461
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
📚📚Οn the occasion of her new #poetry collection "October" (Perispomeni, 2024), lawyer and writer Esmeralda Geka spoke to Reading Greece about #Eros, the question of faith, and ancient #myths as a means to summarize and elevate depth.![]()
![]()
Εκδόσεις Περισπωμένη
www.greeknewsagenda.gr
Esmeralda Geka was born in Athens. She studied Law at the Law School of Athens and holds a postgraduate degree in Civil Law (University of Athens). She works as a lawyer. She has published four poetry...
📌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”.
🎉🎉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 Fairs![]()
Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού