Maria Yiayiannou was born in Athens in 1978. She has published 12 books: novels, novellas, theatre plays, essays and children’s books. She studied Media and Communication at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Cultural Managemen…
T.K. Papatsonis was a multifaceted writer, whose work has increasingly attracted the interest of academic and literary cycles in the last decades. He wrote poetry, essays, literary and artistic reviews, travelogues, and has translated a number of imp…
Nikos Pratsinis studied Chemistry at the University of Athens and pursed postgraduate studies on the economy of chemical industry (Complutense University of Madrid). He studied Portuguese Language and Literature at the State University of Lisboa and…
A new generation of female prose writers has recently been anthologized by Miel des anges Editions under the imaginative title Elles sont neuf! in an effort to present once more a literary genre – short stories – to a francophone aud…
Manolis Anagnostakis is justly considered to be one of the most important poets to have emerged in Greece after World War II – that is, after the ‘famous’ modernist generation of Seferis, Elytis and Ritsos. A leading poet of the fir…
Dr. Therese Sellers is an author, translator, and Modern Greek scholar. Born in Philadelphia, she studied Ancient Greek at Germantown Friends School and Harvard College. While at Harvard, she also took classes in Modern Greek language and poetry. She…
Lila Konomara was born in Athens. She studied contemporary literature in Paris and worked as a professor at the French Institute of Athens. Her first book was Μακάο – Δύο νουβέ&l…
What are the main characteristics of the poetic speech? How do female poets who often have an international education, who speak and write their poems in other languages, perceive and process the country’s literary tradition? And how do young n…
Zizi Salimpa was born in Athens. She studied economics at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She holds a Master’s Degree and a PhD in economic and social history (Paris I – Panthéon – Sorbonne). She h…
On the occasion of the Tirana Book Fair 2022 (16-20 November), a meeting point for writers, poets, translators and readers, Reading Greece spoke to Sofia Deligiorgi, Head of the Greek Language Department of the University of Tirana, about the initiat…
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