Giorgos Skambardonis has published twelve short story collections and seven novels. He received the State Award for Best Short Story Collection in 1993 for his book Η Στενωπός των Υφ&a…
Α festival of words, sounds, lyrics, music, movement and short films, the 9th Athens World Poetry Festival titled “Poetry on the Road” (24-27 September) aims once again to transform the city of Athens into a large poetic c…
Greek folk tales descend from Aesop and Greek antiquity, as well as medieval storytelling in the pivotal south-east Mediterranean world that linked Christianity, Islam and Byzantium. These tales, told by folk narrators throughout Greek-speaking regio…
Born in Stefanesti-Ilfov-Romania in 1949, Elena Lazăr graduated from the School of Classical Languages of the University of Bucharest. She has worked as an editor for two important state publishers (Univers Publishers, Encyclopaedic and Scientific Pu…
The established annual appointment of book lovers, the 51st Book Festival, opens its gates on September 1 and will run through September 17, with thousands of book titles for every taste and age and dozens of presentations, discussions with authors a…
Τhe 11th Thessalian Poetry Festival opens its gates from 21 to 25 August with the participation of a great number of Greek and foreign poets, musicians and artists, in five days full of poetry readings, artistic events and live music performance…
Founded in 2017 World Poetry Books is a non-profit and charitable organization based in New Work City and affiliated with the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut (Storrs). It is committed to publishing exceptional translations of po…
Georgia Sylleou was born in Thessaloniki in 1962.She studied classical music and singing at the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki and then contemporary music movements and theater in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands. She has participated in…
John Taylor (b. 1952) is an American writer, critic, and translator who lives in France. After growing up in Des Moines, he studied mathematics at the University of Idaho, then literature and philosophy at the University of Hamburg (Germany). He…
When Sally Jane Smith sets out for Greece with her mother’s 1978 travel diary in her pocket, she is searching for the wanderlust she lost in a devastating overseas road accident. As she ventures into the heart of the Mediterranean – wande…
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