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📚📚Can #literature, and especially crime fiction, be usesd to approach broader social issues? How does it converse with its surrounding reality?

On the occasion of the publication of his latest novel titled "Hidden Blood" (Εκδόσεις Μεταίχμιο - Ekdoseis Metaixmio, 2025), writer Tasos Papanastasiou attempted to answers these questions in an interview with Reading Greece.

"I see myself as part of the tradition of crime fiction that doesn’t seek to impress, but to reveal. In my view, there’s a fine line between stories that present crimes solved by a superhero detective, and stories in which the crimes emerge from historical, political, or social conditions, with the detective as part of that same world, subject to the same forces. Crime fiction can highlight social and political issues, while also offering the reader an engaging experience. That’s what I try to do with my work".
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Reading Greece: Tasos Papanastasiou on Crime Fiction as a Means to Approach Broader Social Issues
Tasos Papanastasiou was born in 1964 in Thessaloniki, where he lives and works. He is a primary school teacher. He has published three other novels, all featuring Inspector Aptosoglou as the main character: 14 Days (Epikentro, 2017), Silence Doesn’t Keep You Alive (Metaixmio, 2021), and The Breaki...
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Reading Greece1 day ago
📚📚On the occasion of the publication of her latest book "The Eye of the Hippogriff", poet critical social psychologist and literary critic Maki Kostoula spoe to Reading Greece, among others, about the interrelation between poetry, psychology, discourse analysis and literary criticism".

""I think there is constant filtering and communication between psychology, discourse analysis, and literary criticism. What binds them are questions about critique itself – its forms, its limits, its performativity. I see the critical faculty as a continual exploration of reflexivity, a performative practice of transitions and dilemmas. The weaving together of the three – or rather four, if we add poetry – is activated through language use and through the shared understanding that language does things and is never neutral.

In the convergences of poetic and theoretical discourses, insights from social constructionism and discourse analysis traverse the various versions of myself. And although all these retain a fragmentariness that constantly escapes, the conversations between different discourses generate unpredictable shifts and open new possibilities for change — with a historicity that endures".
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Reading Greece: Kostoula Maki – “There is constant filtering and communication between psychology, discourse analysis, and literary criticism”
Κostoula Maki was born in Ioannina. She lives and works in Agrinio as a critical social psychologist. She studied Education and Psychology (University of Patras and University of Birmingham), completed a Master’s degree in Critical Theory (Manchester Metropolitan University), and earned a PhD wit...
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Reading Greece1 week ago
📚Greece at the 39th Guadalajara International Book Fair in Mexico📚

Greece is participating, for the third time, in the Guadalajara International Book Fair, which takes place from 29 November to 7 December 2025, at Expo Guadalajara. It is one of the most important international literary events and the largest #book fair in Latin America, enjoying significant appeal among both professionals and readers.

Thirty-six Greek #publishers, institutions, and organizations will participate in the National Pavilion. More than 150 books will be showcased and promoted in Greek and in other languages - publications by the Ministry of Culture and its supervised bodies, cultural foundations, and publishing houses, both Greek and foreign, that publish #translations of Greek books.

Special emphasis is laid on the #GreekLit translation funding program implemented by the Hellenic Foundation for Books and Culture, through which translated editions of Greek literary production in other languages are presented.
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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, within the framework of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of the European Union.

Greece - International Book Fairs
Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού
HFBC Ελληνικό Ίδρυμα Βιβλίου και Πολιτισμού
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