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📚📚Awarded with the 2024 Elizabeth Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize of the Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) for her translation of "Book of Exercises II" by George Seferis (World Poetry Books, 2024) , Jennifer R. Kellogg spoke to Reading Greece about the challenges of translating the great Greek #poet into English.

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Reading Greece: Jennifer R. Kellogg on the Challenges of Translating the Poetry of George Seferis into English

Jennifer R. Kellogg is a literary translator from Modern Greek and holds a PhD in Modern Languages and Literatures from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). In 2019 she was an Emerging Translator Mentee of the American Literary Translators Association. She was awarded the 2024 Elizabeth Constan...

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On the occasion of Greek Language Day, Rethinking Greece interviewed Dimitrios Koutosgiannis, Professor Emeriturs of Educational Linguistics and associate president of the 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 (CGL).

📌Prof. Koutsogiannis speaks on the CGLs initiatives and digital tools, the profile of people interested in learning Greek in the Diaspora and beyond, and finally, on the need for comprehensive policy for teaching Greek outside Greece.

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Dimitrios Koutsogiannis on teaching Modern Greek in the current global linguistic environment

Dimitrios Koutsogiannis is Professor Emeritus of Educational Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and associate president of the Center for the Greek Language. His research interests and publications focus on teaching of Modern Greek as a first and seco...

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The message of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs George Kotsiras Γιώργος Κώτσηρας on the International Greek Language Day, celebrated today, on February 9. Read the message in Englsih via GNA:
https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/kotsiras-greek-language-day/

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