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📚📚Let's find out what #ReadForReal is!

It is an international project carried out by a consortium of 7 organizations from 5 countries. It's a great European celebration of #literature and creativity designed to take place every year from November 11 to December 12, including author tours that connect writers with readers, a book challenge and many local events at schools, libraries, bookstores, businesses or municipalities that sign up as event organizers.

The program highlights direct engagement with literature – experiencing it live, and authentically – through meeting with #authors. Reading aloud is proven to be largely influential on children’s brain development, their concentration span and level of thinking. This is especially vital in today’s world, overwhelmed by the addictive power of apps yet craving genuine human connection, as well as in the face of troubling declines in critical thinking skills.

HFBC Ελληνικό Ίδρυμα Βιβλίου και Πολιτισμού is the national hub of the program in Greece. Stay tuned!

To learn more👉 https://elivip.gr/en/2025/10/16/read-for-real/
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📚📚On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of #poet Manolis Anagnostakis, a symposium organized by the Department of Modern Greek Studies of the University of Geneva, in cooperation with the Circle of Friends of the Poet Manolis Anagnostakis, with the support of the Consulate General of Greece in Geneva, aims to shed light to the multi-faceted work of the great Greek poet.

Reading Greece spoke to the symposium’s organizers, Valia Tsaita-Tsilimeni (University of Geneva) and Thalia Ieronymaki (Circle of Friends of the Poet Manolis Anagnostakis), about the scope of the symposium, the various lectures that aim to contribute to a renewed understanding of Anagnostakis’s poetic vision, also discussing the way his moral and intellectual stance may speak to our present-day cultural and political realities, and the role that such events play in recontextualizing modern Greek #poetry within global literary studies.

Consulate General of Greece in Geneva - Consulat général de Grèce à Genève
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Reading Greece: A Day Dedicated to Poet Manolis Anagnostakis at the University of Geneva
On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Manolis Anagnostakis, a symposium organized by the Department of Modern Greek Studies of the University of Geneva, in cooperation with the Circle of Friends of the Poet Manolis Anagnostakis, with the support of the Consulate General of Greece in Genev...
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POEM OF THE WEEK: "Heroic and Elegiac Song for the Lost Second Lieutenant of the Albanian Campaign" by Odysseas Elytis

"Heroic and Elegiac Song for the Lost Second Lieutenant of the Albanian Campaign" is a major poem by the Greek Nobel laureate Odysseas Elytis written during World War II. Based on his personal experiences fighting in the Albanian front, the poem is a powerful expression of both resistance and mourning for a fallen soldier, symbolizing the broader struggle for Greek liberty.

Elytis, known for his deep connection to the Greek landscape and spirit, crafts a work that is both a lament and a celebration of heroism, intertwining personal loss with national pride. The poem is suffused with a sense of mourning, but it also exudes a quiet dignity, honoring the sacrifice of the young lieutenant who fought in the harsh mountainous terrain of Albania.

The poem is also infused with a sense of timelessness, as Elytis draws on elements of ancient Greek mythology and history. The figure of the lost lieutenant is elevated to the status of a hero, akin to the warriors of ancient epics. This connection to the past serves to reinforce the idea that the lieutenant's sacrifice is part of a long tradition of Greek heroism, linking the modern struggle to the glories and tragedies of Greece's history.

The poem has become a defining text for his generation and a significant work in his oeuvre, known for its blend of surrealist imagery, realistic experience, and mythical allusions. It is a work that speaks to the universal experience of loss and the ways in which memory and sacrifice can shape a nation's identity.

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''Άσμα ηρωικό και πένθιμο για τον χαμένο ανθυπολοχαγό της Αλβανίας'' του Οδυσσέα Ελύτη (1941)
Με την έναρξη του πολέμου του 1940, ο Ελύτης κατατάχθηκε ως ανθυπολοχαγός στη Διοίκηση του Στρατηγείου του Α΄ Σώματος Στρατού. Στις 13 Δεκεμβρίου 1940 μετατέ...
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