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📚📚Easter holds a special place in the heart of Greek people, and has been the theme of many poems by significant Greek poets, among which Odysseas Elytis.

In his “Journal of an unseen April”, Elytis refers to the Holy Week. Easter is the crisis and the climax of the Journal. It is a period of literal death, and very real mourning, but also a time of unrelenting hopefulness, the fervent commitment to the principle that this world is not all, that some of life’s most significant gestures and meanings are as yet unseen.
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Reading Greece5 days ago
Easter holds a special place in the heart of Greek people, and has been the theme of many poems by significant Greek #poets, such as Dionysios Solomos, Odysseas Elytis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Kostis Palamas, Angelos Sikelianos, Nikos Gatsos, Tasos Leivaditis, Giannis Varveris, Kiki Dimoula, etc.

The six songs of the Holy Week sequence, "Days of the Epitaph" by Nikos Gatsos are a tribute to Christ. The poet feels that Christ’s sacrifice was the ultimate manifestation of God’s love for people. All six songs are interspersed with frequent quotations, sometimes slightly modified, from the Bible and other religious texts, expressing the poet’s conviction that Christ is the only hope for mankind.
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Poetry of the Month: “Days of the Epitaph” by Nikos Gatsos
Easter, or Pascha in Greek, is the most important religious holiday of the Orthodox Church marking the resurrection of Christ and the chance of rebirth for mankind. Easter holds a special place in the heart of Greek people, and has been the theme of many poems by significant Greek poets, such as Di...
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📚ORIZZONTI VICINI/ SHARED HORIZONS📚

Italy Guest of Honour Programme at the Thessaloniki Book Fair / Διεθνής Έκθεση Βιβλίου Θεσσαλονίκης 2025

Orizzonti Vicini (Shared Horizons) is the title of the cultural programme through which Italy will present itself in Thessaloniki. The programme will be presented in four thematic sections:

👉A Shared View, the starting point of which will be the relationship between Italy and Greece,
👉Beyond the Horizon, in which a free flight will take place over the many paths - individual, collective, narrative, fictional - of contemporary Italian literature and publishing,
👉Adventures of land and sea, which will include tributes to Andrea Camillieri (100 years since his birth) and Hugo Pratt (30 years since his death), with meetings, analyses and exhibitions,
👉the Professional Programme, aimed at professionals in the publishing world.

To learn more, visit https://thessalonikibookfair.gr/new/30

HFBC Ελληνικό Ίδρυμα Βιβλίου και Πολιτισμού
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