Category: Reading Greece

📚THESSALONIKI BOOK FAIR 2025 (8-11 May 2025)📚
3rd International Professional Program

The International Professional Program of the Thessaloniki Book Fair / Διεθνής Έκθεση Βιβλίου Θεσσαλονίκης, held at the DIALOGOS Rights Center, has now become an established institution. It attracts renowned publishers and literary agents from abroad, offering a strong platform for expanding the international reach of Greek literary production — especially in combination with the relaunch of the GreekLit translation program by the Hellenic Foundation for Books and Culture.

In its third year, the program welcomes 30 publishers and literary agents from 19 countries. An additional 10 international professionals are participating independently, further enriching the global network.

📌Key Topics:
- Publishing and book market trends for both children and adult literature
- The role of myth and culture in international markets
- The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the publishing industry
- An in-depth look at the Italian publishing world, Guest of Honour country, and opportunities for more systematic cooperation with Greece
- Issues around translation of lesser-spoken languages, as well as gender-related topics

To learn more about the people behind books 👉 https://bit.ly/448P9vx

HFBC Ελληνικό Ίδρυμα Βιβλίου και Πολιτισμού

📚📚Under the motto 'Created by HumA(I)ns’, the 21st Thessaloniki Book Fair / Διεθνής Έκθεση Βιβλίου Θεσσαλονίκης will take place from 8-11 May 2025 with Italy as the guest of honour!

Thessaloniki International Book Fair is one of the country's most important and internationally recognized cultural institutions, organized for the first time this year by the Hellenic Foundation for Books and Culture (HFBC), the new book organization. HFBC was founded in 2024 aiming to promote Greek literature in Greece and abroad, focusing on books as an educational, cultural and recreational medium, while promoting Greek culture and the Greek language internationally.

For more info 👉https://www.thessalonikibookfair.gr/new/31

HFBC Ελληνικό Ίδρυμα Βιβλίου και Πολιτισμού

📚📚Easter holds a special place in the heart of Greek people, and has been the theme of many poems by significant Greek poets, among which Odysseas Elytis.

In his “Journal of an unseen April”, Elytis refers to the Holy Week. Easter is the crisis and the climax of the Journal. It is a period of literal death, and very real mourning, but also a time of unrelenting hopefulness, the fervent commitment to the principle that this world is not all, that some of life’s most significant gestures and meanings are as yet unseen.