Life in the Tomb (1924) by Stratis Myrivilis is a landmark war novel, and by far the most famous work written in Greece on the subject of the First World War. Just like Erich Maria Remarque’s international best-seller All Quiet on the Western F…
Nikos Kourmoulis studied Sociology at the University of Liverpool. He has worked for over twenty years in newspapers, magazines and the radio. He works as a cultural editor in the newspaper "TA NEA". The short story collection [Stillness] is his…
Jose Antonio Moreno Jurado was born in Seville in 1946. He is a poet, essayist and translator of Byzantine and modern Greek prose and poetry in Spanish. He taught modern Greek and Byzantine literature at the University of Seville for five years. He i…
Α Greek “bohemian” poet, one of the “cursed poets” of Greek literature, Napoleon Lapathiotis (1881-1944) is considered one of the most important poets of the neo-symbolist and neo-romantic school. A controversial figure…
One of the milestones of 20th century Greek national narrative is the Asia Minor Catastrophe, i.e. the defeat of the Greek Army in the Greek-Turkish war (1919-1922) and the resulting wave of refugees of Greeks from Asia Minor to the Greek state. …
Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Ulysses’ Shelter is a cooperation project aiming to build a network of exchange literary residences across Europe designed for emerging writers and literary translators. The idea…
Christos Martinis (1985) was born in Athens and lives in Thessaloniki. He has published the following books: foreign light (Ypokeimeno, 2017), Eliofor Festus. A modern Greek poem (Ypokeimeno, 2019) and Fuck the Future, Six poems and a selfie (2022, P…
Eugenia Bogianou was born in Thessaloniki and lives in Athens. She has written four short story collections and two novels. Her last short story collection, entitled These Women, was published in May 2022 by Polis editions. She writes book reviews fo…
Iordanis Papadopoulos (born 1976) is the author of three books. His most recent book Into the WOODS is a cross-genre book published in 2022 by Ikaros. He has also published two books of poetry. He is a member of the live art group "KangarooCourt…
Α festival of words, sounds, lyrics, music, movement, video and dance, the 8th Athens World Poetry Festival titled “Time for Poetry” opens its gates from 19 to 23 September, aiming once again to transform the city of Athens into a l…
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