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📚📚On the occasion of the publication of her first short story collection in Greek "The ones that stayed behind" (Εκδόσεις Πόλις, 2024), speculative fiction writer Atalanti Evripidou spoke to Reading Greece about the book, heavily inspired by Greek history and folklore, and the way speculative fiction helps us reimagine reality.

"Reimagining reality is what writers do best, particularly writers of speculative fiction: we speculate. We look at what is and consider what could be. I’ve always been of the opinion that what sets artists apart is that we’re able to see the wounds in the world and we’re filled with a deep need to heal them. We do that by sharing our vision of the reality, hoping that, if enough readers get it, we could actually change the world. Literature isn’t simply the telling of stories to achieve aesthetic pleasure. It is also an act of defiance and a challenge. An invitation, if you will, to consider and work towards a different reality – a better reality".
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Reading Greece: Atalanti Evripidou– “Reimagining reality is what writers do best, particularly writers of speculative fiction”
Atalanti Evripidou is a female speculative fiction writer from Greece. She also dabbles in poetry, on occasion, and is a social psychologist by profession. Her short stories have been published in various Greek anthologies and her work has been featured in Onyx Path’s “Gods & Monsters” and .....
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Reading Greece4 days ago
📢 The 4th Chania Book Festival (25-29 June 2025) is coming!
"We read. We discuss. We connect"

The 4th Φεστιβάλ Βιβλίου Χανίων - Chania Book Festival was presented today at IANOS Bookstore in Athens in the presence of journalists, #authors, translators, #publishers and representatives of cultural institutions.

With the participation of over 160 speakers from 16 countries - authors, #academics, ##translators, philologists, literary critics, journalists and artists, more than 30 international participations, 42 publishers and the hosting of 100 events, from discussions, #book presentations, workshops to performances and concerts, the Festival gathers contemporary Greek #literature and intellectual thought, while also having an international character with invitations to significant foreign authors, academics, and intellectuals.

The 4th Chania Book Festival is organized by the Municipality of Chania in co-organization with the Region of Crete and with the cooperation of cultural organizations and institutions, as well as bookstores of the city.

📄 Read the full press release (in Greek):
👉 https://www.chaniabookfestival.gr/erxetai-to-4o-festival.../

Stay tuned and enjoy the festivities!

Δήμος Χανίων - Municipality of Chania
Περιφέρεια Κρήτης / Region of Crete
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Reading Greece5 days ago
📚📚Where does poetry meet philosophy? What is that binds them together? In the words of poet Giorgos Dritsas, "I believe that #philosophy and especially philosophical language is crucially linked to #poetry and can influence it in great depth. After all, poetry, as mentioned above, constructs new realities, and through them shapes a theoretical basis that can lead to a new inspiration, which in turn helps create a new worldview and – why not? – a new vision of the world".

Περιοδικό & Εκδόσεις "Οδός Πανός" / Εκδόσεις "Σιγαρέτα" / Γιώργος Χρονάς
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Reading Greece: Giorgos Dritsas on the Meeting Point between Poetry and Philosophy
Giorgos Dritsas was born in 1994 in Corinth, Peloponnese. He graduated from the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology of the University of Athens, where he continued his postgraduate and doctoral studies. In 2016 he self-published the poetry collection The echo of Zarathustra, while the....
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