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Reading Greece: Sissy Doutsiou– “The performative aspect of writing breaks down the artificial barriers between different forms of expression”

Nov 26, 2024 | Reading Greece

Sissy Doutsiou is an actor, a founding member of the Institute for Experimental Arts and curatior...

BOOK OF THE MONTH: “Chimera” by Phoebe Giannisi

Nov 19, 2024 | Reading Greece

Chimera in ancient Greek is a composite being, a creature where different species meet inside one...

Reading Greece:Vasia Tzanakari on the Meeting Point between Writing and Translation

Nov 11, 2024 | Reading Greece

Vasia Tzanakari was born in Serres, Greece. She studied English Literature in Thessaloniki and...

Reading Greece: Eveline Mineur on Greek-Dutch Cultural and Literary Encounters

Nov 4, 2024 | Reading Greece

Eveline Mineur (1997) is a translator of modern and contemporary Greek literature and an...

Reading Greece: Modern Greek Literature at a Glance

Oct 31, 2024 | Reading Greece

“For poetry there exist neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all...

Reading Greece: Niki Troullinou – “A Literary Text Can Hurt Us, Upset Us, Take Us on Journeys and Quests beyond Mere Pleasure”

Oct 17, 2024 | Reading Greece

Niki Troullinou was born in Chania, Crete, and lives in Heraklion. She studied Law in Athens,...

Book of the Month: “Birds in the Night” by Stamatis Polenakis

Oct 10, 2024 | Reading Greece

The poetry collection Birds in the Night, the latest writing venture of distinguished poet...

Athens Art Book Fair 2024: The city’s art book fair is back with its 5th Edition!

Oct 3, 2024 | Reading Greece

The city’s annual art book fair is back! Bringing the festival to the public space for the first...

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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

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🎉🎉Greece at the 38th Guadalajara International Book Fair in Mexico (30 November to 8 December 2024), the most important international gathering of the Spanish-speaking publishing world and the largest book fair in Latin America. The Greek Pavilion will host about 35 #publishers, cultural organizations and institutions, and will showcase publications, both in Greek and in other languages, of the Ministry of Culture and its supervised institutions, cultural institutions and publishing houses, Greek and foreign, that publish translations of Greek #books, as well as books published in other languages in the framework of the GreekLit platform funded by Hellenic Ministry of Culture.Greece - International Book FairsΥπουργείο Πολιτισμού ... See MoreSee Less

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📚📚On the occasion of the publication of her latest book "The Sisters of Cain" (Kastaniotis, 2023), Reading Greece spoke to writer, director and actress Sissy Doutsiou about the performative aspect of writing, and the connections between language, voice, body and place."The performative aspect of writing, when merged with narrative and poetic elements, breaks down the artificial barriers between different forms of expression. This synthesis reflects how real life refuses to be neatly categorized – our experiences are simultaneously physical, emotional, and intellectual. When we bring dramaturgy into narrative, we’re not just telling stories; we’re creating spaces for collective experience that challenge the individualistic focus of contemporary society. The combination of theatrical embodiment, poetic language, and narrative prose creates a space where both writer and reader can meet outside the conventional market-driven relationship of producer and consumer. This artistic convergence becomes a form of resistance against the neoliberal imperative to specialize and compartmentalize".Εκδόσεις Καστανιώτη ... See MoreSee Less

Reading Greece: Sissy Doutsiou– “The performative aspect of writing breaks down the artificial barriers between different forms of expression”

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Sissy Doutsiou is an actor, a founding member of the Institute for Experimental Arts and curatior of the annual International Video Poetry Festival in Athens. A spoken word pioneer in Greece. She tour...

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📚📚In November's BOOK OF THE MONTH, Reading Greece presents "Chimera" by Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi recently translated into English by Brian Sneeden (New Directions, 2024).The center of "Chimera" engages with a three-year field research project on the goat-herding practices of a community of Vlachs, a people of Northern Greece and the Southern Balkans who speak their own language and practice transhumance. Giannisi lays out her vision for a chimeric poetics, poetics of assemblage that are both informed by the human and the non-human, where poetry blends with writing, myth, orality, field recordings, state archives, and ancient texts. The book proposes a kind of chimeric polyphonic poetry, a female version of the etymology of the word tragedy, aegodia, a multiple poetic object that brings together different kinds of poetic materials inside one multiple text body. ... See MoreSee Less

BOOK OF THE MONTH: “Chimera” by Phoebe Giannisi

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Chimera in ancient Greek is a composite being, a creature where different species meet inside one body as various bodily parts. But the original meaning of the word, as we already find it inside the H...

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