Reading Greece: Lina Rokou – “Narrative is one of the most important tools we have to connect with others”
Lina Rokou was born in Athens, but grew up in Corfu. She studied at the Department of...
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Tag: LITERATURE & BOOKS
Reading Greece: Stella Teneketzi – “Literature can function as a crack in normality, a space where words escape the ‘should’ and create the ‘might’”
Stella Teneketzi was born in Thessaloniki in 1977. Her first book, the short story collection Of...
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Reading Greece: Eleni Andreadi – “Literature is a really powerful tool that can nurture environmental awareness in children”
Eleni Andreadi was born in London. She has travelled and worked in many countries, including the...
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Reading Greece: Panayiotis Kalivitis – “Poetry is an act of declaration toward an aesthetic of the Real, of the Heideggerian Das Ding”
Panayiotis Kalivitis is a Panteion University graduate. He studied theatre in Athens and pursued...
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Ancient Texts, Modern Voices: Inside Johanna Hanink’s ‘Lesche’ Podcast
Johanna Hanink is professor of Classics at Brown University, and her work in Classics focuses on...
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Reading Greece: Francesco Colafemmina – “As a philhellene, my mission is also to let more people fall in love with the diachronic Hellenism”
Francesco Colafemmina was born in Rome in 1980. He studied Classical Philology at Bari University...
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Reading Greece: Simoun – A beautiful Little Bookstore in Preveza, Epirus, that Acts as Cultural Pillar in the Local Community
Little bookstores constitute an integral part of our culture and our local communities. It’s the...
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Reading Greece: Stella Stergiou and Georgia Zachari on the Challenges of Turning Classical Literary Works into Graphic Novels
Georgia Zachari was born in Athens in 1994. She studied Art History at the School of Fine Arts,...
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Reading Greece: Lina Rokou – “Narrative is one of the most important tools we have to connect with others”
Lina Rokou was born in Athens, but grew up in Corfu. She studied at the Department of Communication, Media and Culture of Panteion University. She works as a journalist. Her novel End of Hunger (Ikaros, 2018) was included in the four novels selected by Pen Greece as part of Pen International’s Kno...