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Reading Greece10 hours ago
🇬🇷 🇵🇹 This week Reading Greece pays tribute to Greek-Portuguese literary encounters. Within this framework, Reading Greece spoke to distinguished translator Athena Psillia who has translated more than 45 Portuguese books into Greek, among which a large part of the works of the Nobel laureate José Saramago.

"I believe that my original motive for translating Portuguese literature was exactly that: I was passionate about Portuguese literature and culture, and I needed to share my passion. here are also some very passionate people working in the cultural sectors of both the Embassies of Portugal and Brazil; they have been very resourceful and imaginative with the events they host, and I participate whenever I can."

Embassy of Greece in Portugal - Embaixada da Grécia em Portugal
Embaixada de Portugal na Grécia - Πρεσβεία της Πορτογαλίας στην Ελλάδα
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Reading Greece: Athena Psillia on Introducing Portuguese-Language Literature to Greek Readers
Athena Psyllia has been working as a psychologist and as a translator of Portuguese-language literature for the past 30 years. She has translated works by José Saramago, Gonçalo M. Tavares, António Lobo Antunes, José Luís Peixoto, Dulce Maria Cardoso, José Cardoso Pires, Ondjaki, Jorge Amado, ...
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Reading Greece21 hours ago
📌It was on 24 November 1922 that distinguished Greek writer and translator Aris Alexandrou was born.

His presence in contemporary Greek letters was strongly felt in his distinguished translations of poetry and fiction from Russian, French, and English, in his powerful verse, and finally- in the capstone of his career- the emblematic novel, Mission Box, considered one of the major classics of the 20th century Greek literature, distinguished for its exceptionally elaborate prose.

Regarded as a masterpiece of modern Greek literature, Aris Alexandrou’s Mission Box [To Kivotio, 1974] is maybe the most interesting novel of one of the most traumatic political events in the modern Greek history, the Civil War that followed World War II.Symbolically powerful, incisively poetic, Mission Box is a Kafkaesque Odyssey of yearning and disillusionment, aspiration and despair. Brimming with existential and ideological implications, Ιt is a memorable literary experience, a telling allegory of issues, which have a continuing impact on our lives.

Read more about the book 👇
https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/book-of-the-month-mission-box-by-aris-alexandrou/
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Reading Greece1 day ago
🇬🇷 🇵🇹 This week Reading Greece pays tribute to Greek-Portuguese literary encounters. Within this framework, on the occasion of his translation of Cavafy's complete poetic work into #Portuguese (Assírio & Alvim, 2025), Reading Greece spoke to distinguished translator and poet José Luís Costa about the main challenges he faced translating the book, how appealing is Greek #literature to Portuguese #readers, as well as the challenges in bringing contemporary Greek poetry to a Portuguese-speaking audience.

Embassy of Greece in Portugal - Embaixada da Grécia em Portugal
Embaixada de Portugal na Grécia - Πρεσβεία της Πορτογαλίας στην Ελλάδα
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Reading Greece: José Luís Costa on Introducing Greek Poetry to Portuguese Readers
José Luís Costa was born in 1978 in Lisbon, where he currently lives. He studied Classical Philology at the Faculty of Arts of Lisbon. He has translated works by Yannis Ritsos, Katerina Gogou, Dimitris Liakos, and Yannis Stigkas. His most recent translation is the complete poetic works of C. P. Ca...
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