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Reading Greece bids farewell to the great song-writer and composer Dionysis Savvopoulos, who passed away today at the age of 81.

When Dionysis Savvopoulos burst onto the Greek music scene in the early sixties, his highly original songs defied classification. There were no precedents in the music genres then common in Greece. He was initially seen as part of the ‘new wave’ group of composers and singers who emerged at that time and who were influenced by their French counterparts. But Savvopoulos created a genre all his own with his mix of modern and traditional rhythms and with his lyrics at times tender, at times playful and at times filled with biting social criticism.

Αs Dimitris Karambelas put it, “in his work, sound, meaning, singing, yet also narration and stage performance, constitute a compact and inseparable whole”.

Learn more about his work in Reading Greece's BOOK OF THE MONTH: The Rock Song of our Tomorrow – Dionysis Savvopoulos English Edition
https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/book-of-the-month-the-rock-song-of-our-tomorrow-dionysis-savvopoulos-english-edition/
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📌It was on 21 October 1907 that Nikos Engonopoulos, one of the one of the most prominent representatives of Greek Surrealist #poetry and #painting, was born. Closely associated with Andreas Embeirikos, the “patriarch” of #Surrealism in Greece, and with Nicolas Calas, an influential figure of the European and American avant-garde, Engonopoulos developed highly experimental pictorial and poetic aesthetics.

On this occasion, have a look at Greek News Agenda's tributes to the great poet and painter:

🔸Poem of the Month: “Bolivar” by Nikos Engonopoulos
https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/poem-of-the-month-bolivar-by-nikos-engonopoulos/

🔸Arts in Greece | A Journey Through the Surreal World of Nikos Engonopoulos
https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/arts-in-greece-a-journey-through-the-surreal-world-of-nikos-engonopoulos/
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📚📚Οn the occasion of the publication of her latest book "Synthetic Hormone" ( Εκδόσεις Καστανιώτη, 2025), lawyer, writer and a founding member of the network of women writers against gender-based violence "Her Voice", Katerina Papantoniou, spoke to Reading Greece about the way the book renegotiates the politics of embodied experience, lived gender-based violence, and trauma, and, by extension, the politics of female desire and memory, as well as, more generally, about the political potential of #gender in literature.

"Women’s writing overturns the certainties of the patriarchal world and challenges the authoritarian, anti-democratic, fascist movements that are rising globally, abolishing public goods, fundamental rights, identity and gender policies, even withdrawing “disturbing” books."

📷 © Olga Bacopoulou
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Reading Greece: Katerina Papantoniou οn the Political Potential of Gender in Literature
Katerina I. Papantoniou was born in Athens, where she lives and works as a lawyer. She studied at the Law School of the Democritus University of Thrace and at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Since 2010, her short stories have been published in newspapers and magazines. She is the...
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