Category: Reading Greece

📚📚In July's BOOK OF THE MONTH, Reading Greece presents "Hydra in Winter", a travel memoir by Shelley Dark.

"When Shelley Dark lands solo on the Greek island of Hydra for two weeks in the dead of winter, she’s not chasing sunny beaches. She’s hunting a pirate—her husband’s great-great-grandfather and Australia’s first Greek convict. Armed with an umbrella, a cashmere scarf, and zero Greek skills, Shelley is ready to conquer the archives. But Hydra has other ideas: fresh seafood, exhilarating hikes, cats, donkeys, and warm, eccentric locals. What starts as a frantic quest soon reveals that the real treasures are the ones you weren’t looking for".

📚📚One the occasion of his latest novel "The night will fall", one of the most distinguished contemporary Greek writers Konstantinos Tzamiotis spoke to Reading Greece about the relation of #literature with its surrounding social environment, and the way the various micro-stories of his heroes are inextricably linked with the History of the world.

"It’s my firm belief that if you don’t know where you come from, you won’t know where to go next. Yet, knowing your roots can often be extremely complicated if not painful. That’s why sweet revisionism and even sweeter nostalgia prevail these days. Most of us Westerners have lived a rather easy life compared to previous generations. This has clouded and narrowed our horizons. It has made us believe that History is over and that from now on, only constant progress awaits us. But History was, is and will always be here. Especially nowadays we all understand what that means".

Εκδόσεις Μεταίχμιο - Ekdoseis Metaixmio

🎉The Φεστιβάλ Βιβλίου Χανίων - Chania Book Festival opens its doors today and for the next five days (25-29 June) will turn the town of Chania into an international cultural and literary hub.

Themed "Our world, the planet", and with the participation of more that 160 speakers from 16 countries and 100 thematic discussions, #book presentations, workshops, performances, concerts, the Festival returns for its 4th edition through innovative actions, aspiring to become an annual institution, gathering contemporary Greek literature and intellectual thought, while also having an international character with invitations to significant foreign #authors, academics, and intellectuals.

In an era of extreme contrasts and uncertainty, #literature, essays, and #poetry — as sensitive receptors of the messages of our time — bring critical issues into the public sphere and serve as a universal thread that connects humanity, fostering connections and bridging distances. In the words of the Festival's Director, Manolis Pimplis, "This is the value of a festival. The creation of another world within the known world, the fusion of individual existential struggle with collective vision. And this has a deeper existential, social, and political significance".

For more info about the Festival's Events Programme👉https://www.chaniabookfestival.gr/en/events/

Δήμος Χανίων - Municipality of Chania