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Reading Greece14 hours ago
📣 The Archipelagos project, which organizes residencies across Europe has just announced an open call for translators who translate from and to Greek!

Archipelagos is a three-year project launched in January 2024. It stems from the need to safeguard, develop and promote linguistic and cultural diversity within the translated literature market across Europe. Works translated in European languages other than English are in the minority, and the part played by literary translators in their discovery often remains invisible.

Literary translators can benefit from a wide range of opportunities over three years: over 100 residencies and 10 workshops will bring together more than 150 translators. Through a variety of meetings and professional seminars, booksellers, librarians and publishers will also be able to gain a better understanding of lesser-known literature.

Finally, Archipelagos will be present at several literary events in Europe, giving the scouting translators the opportunity to share the published treasures they have found with a wide audience.

For more info 👉 archipelagos-eu.org

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Reading Greece2 days ago
📚📚On the occasion of the publication of his new novel "Jacarandas" (Εκδόσεις Εστία, 2024), award-winning writer Foivos Oikonomidis spoke to Reading Greece about the book, the way his writings describe this liminal era, as well as the way literature converses with its surrounding reality.

"I think literature is quite effective in the way it permeates the skin and allows for what’s inside to be revealed in minute detail. Through literature one can show how reality takes form inside them. How they perceive it, how they suffer or thrive in it, what their attempts to escape it look like. I think there is no world other than the one in our heads, and that we have a really tough time communicating our worlds to each other. So, literature is a great way to empathize. That is the way, I think, through which it can be revolutionary. When we talk of radically different realities, dystopias or utopias and what not, what we want to know is how it feels to live in such a reality. As long as we emphasize on the human experience, literature can describe anything".
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Reading Greece: Foivos Oikonomidis – “As long as we emphasize on the human experience, literature can describe anything”
Foivos Oikonomidis was born in 1997 in Athens. His debut novel North [Βορράς] (Hestia Publications, 2020) won the 2021 State Literary Award for Best Debuting Author. His poetry collection A Million Days Of Sleep [Ένα Εκατομμύριο Μέρες Ύπνος] in collaboration with visua...
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Reading Greece4 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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