Category: Reading Greece

🎉Greece will be the Guest of Honour at the 44th Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF 2025), one of the world’s leading publishing events, taking place from 5 to 16 November 2025 at the Expo Centre Sharjah.

At the National Pavilion (Hall 5, Stand L13), 59 #publishers, cultural organizations, and institutions will participate, including 28 with a physical presence. Around 600 titles in Greek and other languages will be presented — editions from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, its supervised bodies, cultural foundations, and both Greek and foreign publishers specializing in translations of Greek works. A central role will be given to #GreekLit, the #translation funding programme for Greek books into other languages, implemented by the Hellenic Foundation for Books and Culture.

Greece’s presence at SIBF 2025 will be accompanied by a rich programme of professional and cultural events, featuring more than 70 participants — #authors, #poets, translators, illustrators, musicians, actors, librarians, academics, representatives of cultural institutions, and publishers.

Greece will take part in the Professional Programme and the 15th Sharjah International Book Fair Publishers Conference (Sunday 2 – Tuesday 4 November 2025), held prior to the official opening of the fair. In addition, Greece will participate in the 12th Sharjah International Library Conference (SILC) (Wednesday 5 – Saturday 8 November 2025), which takes place alongside the fair.

As part of its Guest of Honour participation, Greece has prepared a series of Arabic translations of Greek works, including anthologies of State Prize-winning poetry and short stories, as well as contemporary poetic dramatic monologues.
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Greece's national participation in the international book fairs is implemented for the years 2023 to 2025 by the Directorate of Letters of the General Directorate of Contemporary Culture of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, within the framework of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of the European Union.

Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού
HFBC Ελληνικό Ίδρυμα Βιβλίου και Πολιτισμού
Greece - International Book Fairs

📚📚On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of #poet Manolis Anagnostakis, a symposium organized by the Department of Modern Greek Studies of the University of Geneva, in cooperation with the Circle of Friends of the Poet Manolis Anagnostakis, with the support of the Consulate General of Greece in Geneva, aims to shed light to the multi-faceted work of the great Greek poet.

Reading Greece spoke to the symposium’s organizers, Valia Tsaita-Tsilimeni (University of Geneva) and Thalia Ieronymaki (Circle of Friends of the Poet Manolis Anagnostakis), about the scope of the symposium, the various lectures that aim to contribute to a renewed understanding of Anagnostakis’s poetic vision, also discussing the way his moral and intellectual stance may speak to our present-day cultural and political realities, and the role that such events play in recontextualizing modern Greek #poetry within global literary studies.

Consulate General of Greece in Geneva - Consulat général de Grèce à Genève
Όμιλος Φίλων του Ποιητή Μανόλη Αναγνωστάκη