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🎉Congratulations to Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi, whose book "Chimera", in its English translation by Brian Sneeden (New Directions, 2024) has been shortlisted for the 2025 National Translation Award in Poetry.

The National Translation Award (NTA) is awarded annually in poetry and in prose to literary translators who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English by masterfully creating the artistic force of a book of consummate quality.

"Chimera" by Phoebe Giannisi lays out her vision for a chimeric poetics, poetics of assemblage that are both informed by the human and the non-human, where poetry blends with writing, myth, orality, field recordings, state archives, and ancient texts. The book proposes a kind of chimeric polyphonic poetry, a female version of the etymology of the word tragedy, aegodia, a multiple poetic object that brings together different kinds of poetic materials inside one multiple text body.
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BOOK OF THE MONTH: “Chimera” by Phoebe Giannisi
Chimera in ancient Greek is a composite being, a creature where different species meet inside one body as various bodily parts. But the original meaning of the word, as we already find it inside the Homeric Epics is the female goat. Recently published in English (New Directions, 2024) and masterfull...
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Reading Greece3 days ago
📚📚Where does poetry meet #psychology? Where do personal micro-stories meet the collective #History of the world?

Dr. Yiorgos Samoilis spoke to Reading Greece about his latest #poetry collection "Τa fyl(l)a" (Θράκα, 2023), his poetic language and the interrelation between the personal and the collective in his work.

"It is inevitable that the personal becomes embedded in my writing. I write from a place of subjectivity, my understanding of myself, the world, and those around me. I am both embodied and embedded, an Aristotelian social animal. Therefore, in my work, the personal cannot escape its encounter with the social and the cultural. For me, the creation of a poem entails a moment of encounter: my perceptual system takes something in-let’s say an object-and, through the construction of language and the use of imagination, transforms it into something different (sometimes beyond the conventional or the normative). In addition, as a social being, I am also a by-product of the collective, situated at this particular point in time and place. Thus, the personal, the cultural, and the sociological all come together to form a dish, a kind of soup, as I like to think of it composed of many ingredients thrown into a pot, my brain. I am not certain whether the dish is entirely edible, but I have done my best to stir its contents at the time when this collection was written".
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Reading Greece: Yiorgos Samoilis Οn Poetry and Psychology as Communicating Vessels - Greek News Agenda
Dr. George (Yiorgos) Samoilis, originally from Greece, is a psychologist and university lecturer based in London. His literary career began with the publication of his debut novel by IntoBooks (Athens) in 2011. In 2018, he followed with a collection of psychotherapeutic short stories published by Od...
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Reading Greece6 days ago
📚Greece at the 43rd LIBER International Book Fair in Madrid (7–9 October 2025)📚

Greece will participate at the 43rd LIBER International Book Fair, which will take place in Madrid from Tuesday 7 to Thursday 9 October 2025, at Pavilion 14.1 of the IFEMA Exhibition Centre.

The Greek National Pavilion (Stand 14 D02) will feature 44 #publishers, cultural organisations and institutions. More than 450 titles will be on display and presented, in both Greek and other languages. These include publications by the Ministry of Culture and its supervised entities, cultural foundations, as well as Greek and international publishers who issue #translations of Greek literary works.

Particular emphasis is placed on the #GreekLit translation funding programme, which highlights Greek publishing output made available in other languages, thereby supporting and promoting the international dissemination of Greek #literature.
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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.

Greece - International Book Fairs
HFBC Ελληνικό Ίδρυμα Βιβλίου και Πολιτισμού
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