literature

Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, in the category of community relations, is Greek-Australian Hariklia Heristanidis' book, All Windows Open and Other Stories (Clouds of Magellan). It is the first complete work of Heristanidis, who wants to present Greek...

The Greece-Japan Center in cooperation with the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis and the Japan-Greece Society have organized an event for May 14 in Tokyo to celebrate the 25 years of activity of the International Society to...

The translation of the complete works of Cavafy into Arabic by renowned poet and translator Refaat Sallam, was presented in an event of the Annex of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture, in the the Cavafy Museum in Alexandria, Egypt. Through...

Two Greeks from the Diaspora, author Christos Tsiolkas and director and screenwriter Ana Kokkinos were chosen this year by the RMIT University to share their knowledge with future authors, whose main reference is their Greek origin, in the context...

The new book written by Greek author Christos Tsiolkas is expected to be published in October, his fifth, and five years after his previous novel The Slap. The main character is an Australian swimmer who made ​​many sacrifices to become...

The International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis is going to organize several commemorating events throughout 2013, to celebrate the 25 years of its founding, in the 116 countries where it works to promote the work of the renowned...

When you look from the office window of I.A. Nikolaidis, you can see the sun setting down across entire Thessaloniki and immediately you realize why this city is the inspiration for his poetry and other writing. And then there...

The first Antipodes Writers Festival will begin on Friday, June 15 in Melbourne. On the first day, attendants will have the opportunity to enjoy an artistic dialogue between award-winning author Christos Tsiolkas and Professor of Cultural Studies at the...

The National Book Centre of Greece (EKEBI) and the Ministry of Tourism are turning to the dynamic of young Greek authors by organizing for the first time on Greek grounds the Emerging Writers’ Festival. Under the theme “We have a...