Category: Spotlight

𝐒𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐚 𝐃𝐮𝐠𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐞 has won the 2025 Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award for her extraordinary poetry collection, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘣𝘰𝘹 ! 🎉

👏 Warmest congratulations to Sasha Dugdale on this well-deserved recognition! And hats off to the other brilliant authors on this year’s exceptional shortlist:

📖 Pat Barker – The Voyage Home
📖 Alex Christofi – Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean
📖 Julia Kindt – The Trojan Horse and Other Stories
📖 Ferdia Lennon – Glorious Exploits
📖 Glenn Peers – Byzantine Media Subjects

🏆 The Runciman Award, now in its 39th year, recognizes English-language books that deal wholly or partly with 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦, so if you are looking for a Greek-themed book for this summer, be sure to click the link below! 👇

Konstantinos Hatzidakis, vice president of the government of Greece and a former minister of economy and finance, published an article on the strong reforms have turned Greece into one of Europe’s fastest-growing economies, on the International Monetary Fund's official site.

The Dodecanese is a group of twelve main islands (and many smaller ones) in the southeastern Aegean Sea. The name itself literally means “twelve islands” – with each having a unique character and rich history, and attracting various types of tourism.