Efstathia P. (pen name: tria epslion) was born in Thessaloniki in 1994. She speaks fluently English and Spanish from which she translates poems and essays in Greek. She has a Bachelor degree in Greek Literature and a MA degree in General and Comparat…
Elias Petropoulos (1928-2003) was among the most controversial Greek writers of the twentieth century. Imprisoned three times during the Junta (1967-1974) and persecuted by Greek judges as late as the 1980s, this “urban folklorist” produc…
Set in the northeastern Aegean island of Lesvos, in the picturesque village of Molyvos, from 1941 to 1974, during some of the most dire decades of the 20th century, Arrested Song depicts the turbulent life of Calliope Adham. Young, strong-willed and…
Viki Katsarou was born in 1987 and lives in Athens. She is a graduate of the Department of Classics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has done post-graduate studies in Greek Language and Literature, in Theater Studies and in…
Hundreds of studies have been published about the interactions, the affinities and the divergences that Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis had with his contemporary writers. The Scientific Conference “Nikos Kazantzakis and his Fellow Greek Writers:…
Ioanna Lioutsia was born in Thessaloniki in 1992. She is a PhD researcher on Performance Art in Balkans (University of Peloponnese). She holds an integrated master degree in Directing (Theatre department, AUTh, 2018), a BA in Acting (Contemporary The…
Claudiu Sfirschi-Lăudat is a translator of Greek literature in Romanian and director of the Branch of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture in Bucharest. He studied at the Philosophy Department of the University of Bucharest and chose the dramatic genr…
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…
Marija Dejanović was born in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1992. She grew up in Croatia, Sisak, and currently lives between Zagreb, Croatia, and Larissa, Greece. She studied Comparative literature and Pedagogy (University of Zagreb). In 2018,…
Greek literature goes back to Homer’s epics, the first works of European literature (8th century BCE), while the cultural production of Classical Greece has become part of the common heritage of the Western world. Yet, when it comes to the Clas…
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