literature

The International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis (DEFNK) is organizing events in South America and also in the Greek writer’s birthplace of Heraklion, Crete to welcome the new year. On January 7, the Spanish translation of Kazantzakis’ “Odyssey” will...

The 24-year-old Greek from Sydney, Will Kostakis, is one of the up-and-coming young writers in Australia and is destined to leave his mark. In 2005, Will Kostakis won Sydney Morning Herald Young Writer of the Year, for a collection of...

As the Greek State declared, the year 2013 is the “Year of Cavafy” and in celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the famous Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy, a special event took place in Seoul, South Korea. The event...

Christina Onassis' best friend, the Argentinian Marina Dodero, is writing a book that reveals the unknown aspects of the death of the heiress. The book will be released in Argentina in March 2014. It consists of 24 chapters, 20 of...

  A special event to celebrate the 130th anniversary since the day of the famous Greek Poet Nikos Kazantzakis’ birth as well as 25 years since the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis (ISFNK) was founded . This event,...

The new issue number 59 of the literary magazine Antipodes, was presented in a beautiful event by the Greek-Australian Cultural League of Melbourne. It was first published in 1974 and has been circulating twice a year ever since. The magazine Antipodes,...

The long awaited new novel by award-winning Greek-Australian author, Christos Tsiolkas, entitled Barracuda, will be presented during a special event in Melbourne, Australia, on October 23. In Barracuda, we follow the story of a young swimmer, Danny Kelly, with the...

The distinguished journalist of Greek descent George Megalogenis was honored with another award, this time with the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for the non-fiction category, for his book The Australian Moment. Megalogenis, who until recently was a commentator for the...

Maria Boletsi, Professor at the Film and Literary Studies Department of Leiden University, gave a speech entitled, The Barbarians’ Travels and Cavafy’s Centrifugal Greekness. The talk follows the travels of Cavafy's well-known poem, Waiting for the barbarians, in contemporary art. It...

The works of Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco and Alexis Zorbas, will be translated into  Japanese, as it was announced by the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis (ISFNK), which, on the occasion of the 25 years since...