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🎉Greece at the 62nd Bologna Children's Book Fair (31 March – 3 April 2025)🎉

With a dynamic presence and a strong emphasis on collaboration and creativity, Greece is once again participating in the 62nd Bologna Children’s Book Fair, taking place from Monday, 31 March to Thursday, 3 April 2025, at the BolognaFiere exhibition center. The main goal is to support Greek nominees for international awards and to showcase talented emerging Greek creators.

This year, special emphasis is placed on the event “One story, many voices—A multilingual journey through silent books” — an open and participatory experience that uses silent books (wordless books) as a means of expression, multilingualism, and intercultural understanding. Through workshops, collaborative storytelling sessions, and creative “translations” of images into different languages, the initiative highlights the power of illustration as a universal language.

In parallel, a series of visits and events will be held at Greek schools of the diaspora, strengthening ties with Hellenism abroad and fostering creative interaction among children, in collaboration with Greek publishers, authors, illustrators, and representatives of the Greek IBBY National Section – Circle of the Greek Children’s Book, members of the National Award for Children’s Book Committee, and the Greek Community of Emilia Romagna

The Bologna Children’s Book Fair is the leading international event dedicated to children’s and young adult literature. In 2025, it will host over 1,500 exhibitors and thousands of publishers, literary agents, illustrators, authors, booksellers, librarians, and more, from over 90 countries.
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Greece's national participation in the international book fairs is implemented for the years 2023 to 2025 by the Directorate of Letters of the General Directorate of Contemporary Culture of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, within the framework of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of the European Union.

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Historians have been slow to recognise the key role of the Greek uprising in 1821, and the international recognition of #Greece as a sovereign, independent state nine years later, in 1830, in this process that did so much to shape the geopolitics of the European continent, and indeed of much of the world.

"The Greek #Revolution of 1821 and its Global Significance" by Roderick Beaton sets out to explain what happened during these nine years to bring about such far-reaching (and surely unanticipated) consequences, and why the full significance of these events is only now coming to be appreciated, two hundred years later.

The true significance of the events taking place around them was perhaps most accurately divined by those British poets who stand out among the philhellenic movement, Shelley and Byron. In a passage deleted by his publisher from the Preface of "Hellas", written in the autumn of 1821, that remained unpublished until 1892, Shelley wrote: “This is the age of the war of the oppressed against the oppressors [… . A ] new race has arisen throughout Europe, nursed in the abhorrence of the opinions which are its chains, and she will continue to produce fresh generations to accomplish that destiny which tyrants foresee and dread”. Ιndeed, as Byron foresaw, what was being achieved by the Greek revolutionaries was to create an entirely new kind of political state that in the future would be emulated throughout the continent.

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