Category: Reading Greece

📚📚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 are captivated by the thrill of reading that can last a lifetime. They are the places that never stop inspiring us, uniting us and spreading the love for #books.

Reading Greece spoke to Ioanna Diamanti and Miltos Gitas, owners of Μωβ Κουκουβάγια, a little bookstore in Ioannina, Epirus, about the role of little bookstores and their influence on reading preferences, as well as the challenges they are faced with and the prospects ahead.

⏰One week left for the Thessaloniki International Book Fair 2025!

👉The title of this year's TBF, Created by HumA(I)ns, puts the challenge of AI in its many and varied manifestations at the centre of the discussions: From fake news, media and copyright to human rights, from digital books, librarianship, book buying to translation and writing, and from education to the mechanisms of advertising.

👉The international professional programme of the TIF, which takes place at the DIALOGUE Rights Centre, has become an institution that attracts distinguished publishers and literary agents from abroad, giving the opportunity for greater extroversion of Greek production in combination with the relaunch of the GreekLit translation programme. In its third year, the professional programme has secured 30 participants from prominent publishing houses and 19 countries!

👉Beloved Greek authors and important foreign authors, illustrators and academics are visiting this year's Thessaloniki International Book Fair, in cooperation with Greek publishers and educational institutes, bringing us their own view of the world.

👉In cooperation with the participating publishers, institutions, institutes and groups, the 21st Thessaloniki International Book Fair continues this year its events, which have become an integral part of the fair: The 11th Young Writers’ Festival will present a wide and diverse range of poets and prose writers and will again this year prepare the successful Poetry Black Box, which will host videopoems, but this time also events. At the 9th Translation Festival, in addition to our usual rendezvous with the exciting Translation Slam, there is a special focus on Artificial Intelligence, translation studies and their impact, as well as translators' fees and the translation of plays. The LEILA platform is also presented, a European project coordinated by France, which has been promoting contemporary Arabic literature in Europe since 2023, with over 90 authors and 70 titles.

👉Of the 450 events at this year's TBF, 112 are aimed at children, teenagers and teachers. In the main exhibition of Rhyme and illustrations, ‘Small and Italian’, 70 authors and illustrators share rhyming verses and drawings inspired by this year's guest of honour country, its literature, its symbols, its heroes, its tastes and smells.

📌A detailed "road map" for this year's visitors is available👉
https://www.thessalonikibookfair.gr/new/31

Thessaloniki Book Fair / Διεθνής Έκθεση Βιβλίου Θεσσαλονίκης
HFBC Ελληνικό Ίδρυμα Βιβλίου και Πολιτισμού