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📚IT'S ALL ABOUT ... "BOOK OF THE MONTH"!📚

"BOOK OF THE MONTH" is a special section of Reading Greece presenting major works of contemporary Greek literature, as well as noteworthy books recently published. As 2025 slowly draws to its end, it's a great opportunity to have a look at these books and learn more about them:

📕“Book of Exercises II” by George Seferis
https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/book-of-the-month-book-of-exercises-ii-by-george-seferis/

📗“Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography” by Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis
https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/%ce%b2%ce%bf%ce%bf%ce%ba%ce%bff-the-month-constantine-cavafy-a-new-biography-by-peter-jeffreys-and-gregory-jusdanis/

📘“The City – Urban Space in the Work of C.P. Cavafy” by Vassilis Colonas
https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/book-of-the-month-the-city-urban-space-in-the-work-of-c-p-cavafy-by-vassilis-colonas/

📙“The Greek Revolution of 1821 and its Global Significance” by Roderick Beaton
https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/book-of-the-month-the-greek-revolution-of-1821-and-its-global-significance-by-roderick-beaton/

📗“Pope Joan” by Emmanuel Roïdes, translated into English by David Connolly
https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/book-of-the-month-pope-joan-by-emmanuel-roides-translated-into-english-by-david-connolly/

📕“The other half of the sky – Greek women poets of the 20th century” translated into Albanian by Maklena Nika
https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/poetry-anthology-of-the-month-the-other-half-of-the-sky-greek-women-poets-of-the-20th-century-translated-into-albanian-by-maklena-nika/

📘“Nautical Logbook – Sailing Through the Timeline” by Dimitris Balopoulos
https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/%ce%b2%ce%bf%ce%bf%ce%ba-%ce%bff-the-month-nautical-logbook-sailing-through-the-timeline-by-dimitris-balopoulos/

📙“Crossing the Ocean” by Niki Troullinou
https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/book-of-the-month-crossing-the-ocean-by-niki-troullinou/

📗“Hydra in Winter” by Shelley Dark
https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/book-of-the-month-hydra-in-winter-by-shelley-dark/
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🇬🇷 🇵🇹 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."

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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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📌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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