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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
📌The established annual appointment of book lovers, the 52nd Book Festival, opened its gates on September and will run through September 22, with thousands of #book titles for every taste and age and dozens of presentations, discussions with #authors and parallel events. ![]()
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200 #publishers and 280 stands participate in the country’s biggest festival in Pedion tou Areos, while 200 cultural events, concerts, #theatre performances and interactive educational events aim to attract new #readers. ![]()
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📚📚Little #bookstores constitute an integral part of our local communities. Their role proves crucial in case they are located in remote areas. ![]()
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Reading Greece presents "Captain", a little bookstore, which recently opened its doors in Apeiranthos, on the island of Naxos, discussing the role of little bookstores and their influence on #reading preferences, as well as the challenges they are faced with and the prospects ahead.![]()
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Reading Greece: ‘Captain’ Bookstore Opens its Doors on the Island of Naxos
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Little bookstores constitute an integral part of our culture and our local communities. It’s the place where writers can connect with readers, where we discover new, unknown worlds, where children a...
📌It was on 3 September 2003 that Greek urban #folklorist Elias Petropoulos died. Petropoulos was among the most controversial Greek #writers of the twentieth century, with a vast and groundbreaking oeuvre of some seventy #books. ![]()
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"Mirror for You" (Cycladic Press, 2023) collects nearly all of the poetry written by Elias Petropoulos. Featuring new translations by American writer, translator and literary critic John Taylor, it is the first time that Petropoulos’s poetry has been made available in English. The book serves as a kind of “introduction” to the personality of Elias Petropoulos. ![]()
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As head of Cycladic Press, Michael Alexandratos, told Reading Greece, “The poems make apparent Petropoulos’s abrasiveness and eroticism, but also his sensitivity and melancholy. In this respect, Petropoulos can be compared to the poet Charles Bukowski, who was also harsh and tender in both his life and poetry”. ![]()
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For more info 👉Reading Greece: John Taylor on Narrating the Life and Work of Greek Urban Folklorist Elias Petropoulos![]()
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Elias Petropoulos (1928-2003) was among the most controversial Greek writers of the twentieth century. Imprisoned three times during the Junta (1967-1974) and persecuted by Greek judges as late as the...