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Reading Greece is a series of interviews featuring Greek writers and other stakeholders of the Greek book market. It forms part of Greek News Agenda, issued by the Public Diplomacy Secretariat of the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs
📚📚On the occasion of his translation of “Les impatientes” by Djaili – Amadou Amal (Εκδόσεις Θίνες, 2024) (Prix Goncourt des lycéens 2020), translator Aggelos Moutafidis spoke to Reading Greece about the challenges of translating major writers and scholars into Greek, the pivotal role of #translation and the way it always constitutes the product of collective work.![]()
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"Whereas in the past the work of the translator was systematically downplayed as if translation came about by magic, today I feel that a reverse myth is tending to emerge: the myth that (good) translation is the product of a single gifted and talented person who is something of a master of a rare art. The reality is much more prosaic and much more complex. No translation is an individual affair. Every translated book results from the collaboration of a network of people, so it is always the product of collective work. I think that this issue is hardly discussed. The signifier ‘translator’ usually encapsulates a range of work to which other people have certainly contributed, often decisively".
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Aggelos Moutafidis was born in Thessaloniki in 1990. He studied Psychology and Comparative Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has been working as a translator and book editor s...
🎉#Greece at the 56th Cairo International Book Fair, focusing on events that emphasize networking and the translation of Greek #literature 🎉![]()
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At the 56th Cairo International Book Fair, events organized by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, through the Directorate of Letters, in collaboration with the Hellenic Foundation for Books and Culture, the Alexandria Branch of the Foundation, and the Embassy of Greece in Egypt, will feature: Dimitris Daskalopoulos, poet and bibliographer; Stavros Zafeiriou, poet (State Poetry Award, 2023); Nikos Bakounakis, president of the Hellenic Foundation for Books and Culture; Sissy Papathanassiou, Director of the Letters Directorate at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture; and Mohamed Abdelaziz, PhD of Philology (Greek and Arabic Comparative Studies), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens − Teaching Assistant. Faculty of Languages and Translation Al-Azhar University, and translator.![]()
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The Cairo International Book Fair, organized by the General Egyptian Book Organization, began in 1969 as part of Cairo’s millennium celebrations and has evolved into one of the world’s largest book fairs. It ranks second only to the Frankfurt Book Fair, attracting millions of visitors annually. This year’s fair is expected to feature participation from 1,345 publishers and official entities from Egypt, the Arab world, and 80 other countries, with approximately 6,150 exhibitors.![]()
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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.![]()
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📌It was on 21 January 2020 that Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, one of the most emblematic lyric voices of post-war poetry, passed away.![]()
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A few months before her death, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke spoke to Reading Greece about what changed and what remained the same in her poetry more than forty years since her first poetry book, as well as on the role language plays in her writings. She explained that “the oppressive times turn to prose to express the negative horizons” and added that “youth that is no longer threatened, hopes and returns to poetry to express hope and plans, hesitating and taking one step at a time”.![]()
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She commented that “poetry has always played its unique role in human history by creating new – political, religious, ethnical – values or by defending even fighting for the old ones” and concludes that “poetry is an endless source of revival, even when reality had totally forgotten its existence, which makes me believe that it can rise again”. “Not as a victim to be exploited by forces of violence but maybe by creating a new poetic “cosmogony” made out of the totally antipoetic elements of our time”.
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One of the most emblematic lyric voices of post-war poetry, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke was born in Athens in 1939. She completed university studies in Athens (Greece), Nice (France) and Geneva (Switzerl...