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Reading Greece2 days ago
🎊Congratulations to "Marilena Laskaridis" Chair of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Amsterdam and Associate Professor in Film and Literary Studies of Leiden University, Maria Boletsi, whose "Specters of Cavafy" (University of Michigan Press) was selected by the board of European Society of Modern Greek Studies as the winner of the prize for the best published monograph in 2024.

📚To learn more about the book, have a look at Reading Greece's BOOK OF THE MONTH: "Specters of Cavafy" by Maria Boletsi
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BOOK OF THE MONTH: “Specters of Cavafy” by Maria Boletsi
The Greek Alexandrian poet C. P. Cavafy (1863–1933) has been recognized as a central figure in European modernism and world literature. His poetry explored the conditions for animating the past and making lost worlds or people haunt the present. Yet he also described himself as “a poet of the fu...
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Reading Greece5 days ago
📚📚In July's BOOK OF THE MONTH, Reading Greece presents "Hydra in Winter", a travel memoir by Shelley Dark.

"When Shelley Dark lands solo on the Greek island of Hydra for two weeks in the dead of winter, she’s not chasing sunny beaches. She’s hunting a pirate—her husband’s great-great-grandfather and Australia’s first Greek convict. Armed with an umbrella, a cashmere scarf, and zero Greek skills, Shelley is ready to conquer the archives. But Hydra has other ideas: fresh seafood, exhilarating hikes, cats, donkeys, and warm, eccentric locals. What starts as a frantic quest soon reveals that the real treasures are the ones you weren’t looking for".
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Book of the Month: “Hydra in Winter” by Shelley Dark
When Shelley Dark lands solo on the Greek island of Hydra for two weeks in the dead of winter, she’s not chasing sunny beaches. She’s hunting a pirate—her husband’s great-great-grandfather and Australia’s first Greek convict. Armed with an umbrella, a cashmere scarf, and zero Greek skills,...
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Reading Greece
Reading Greece7 days ago
📚📚One the occasion of his latest novel "The night will fall", one of the most distinguished contemporary Greek writers Konstantinos Tzamiotis spoke to Reading Greece about the relation of #literature with its surrounding social environment, and the way the various micro-stories of his heroes are inextricably linked with the History of the world.

"It’s my firm belief that if you don’t know where you come from, you won’t know where to go next. Yet, knowing your roots can often be extremely complicated if not painful. That’s why sweet revisionism and even sweeter nostalgia prevail these days. Most of us Westerners have lived a rather easy life compared to previous generations. This has clouded and narrowed our horizons. It has made us believe that History is over and that from now on, only constant progress awaits us. But History was, is and will always be here. Especially nowadays we all understand what that means".

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ReadingGreece: KonstantinosTzamiotis – “Literature helps us better understand and even expand reality”
Konstantinos Tzamiotis was born in 1970 in Larissa. He studied cinema. He lives in Athens. His books include The City and Silence (2013), The Invention of Shadow (2008), Parabola (2006), The Degree of Difficulty (2005), Deep Well (2003), The Encounter (2002). His short stories have been published in...
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