In the heart of Athens, amid the winding streets of Plaka, preparations are nearing completion for a cultural milestone: the opening of the Odysseas Elytis House Museum on November 1.
LITERATURE
The first, in 1969, was about modern Greek literature and its relationship with its European peers.
The city’s cannons sounded 37 times in Messolonghi on the day that Lord Byron breathed his last, one for each year of his short life.
The Anglo-Hellenic League has officially opened nominations for the Runciman Award 2025, inviting publishers to submit up to seven titles each for consideration.
Locals and visitors of the famous mountain village of Apeiranthos on the island of Naxos sit on the steps in an alley to watch one of the poetry evenings, PeriPoisis, organized for the second year by the newly founded bookshop of the village, “The Captain,” which operates all year round.
Michel de Grece, the renowned historian and author, passed away at the age of 85 in a hospital in Athens, it was announced on Sunday.
Renowned British author and novelist Victoria Hislop was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature for 2024 during a ceremony at the Garden Museum in London last week.
Professor Gonda Van Steen, the Koraes Chair at the Centre for Hellenic Studies and Department of Classics at King’s College London and a member of the academic committee for the Alexandria Cavafy House, joins Thanos Davelis to explore why making Cavafy widely accessible – from his Alexandria home to the Cavafy Archive in Athens – is important, and look at why his work still inspires us today.
When two octogenarian buddies named Nick discovered that ChatGPT might be stealing and repurposing a lifetime of their work, they tapped a son-in-law to sue the companies behind the artificial intelligence chatbot.
The 16th LEA (Literature in Athens) Festival starts next week, aiming to form cultural and literary bridges between Latin America, Spain, Greece and Portugal through words and letters.
After years of abandonment, the house in the Plaka district of Athens once belonging to the celebrated Greek poet Kostis Palamas, will be restored and given a new lease on life as a landmark and as a place to exhibit his work and to study modern Greek literature.
The poetry collection “Bygone Fairytales” by esteemed Greek physician-researcher Dr Georgios Pavlakis was introduced on Thursday, December 14, at the Hellenic Center in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
If the baronessa Beatrice Monti della Corte has found a secret to life, it is stories.
One hundred and sixty years after the birth of Constantine Cavafy, the influential Greek poet, journalist, and civil servant from Alexandria, the Onassis Foundation is adding a landmark to downtown Athens and a milestone in Cavafy research by setting up the Cavafy Archive on Frynichou Street in Plaka, which opens to the public on Wednesday.
British classicist and art historian Caroline Vout received the London Hellenic Prize award during a recent ceremony held at the Hellenic Center in London for her book, “Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body” (published by Profile/Wellcome).
The general public became acquainted with George Pavlakis, the top Greek doctor and medical researcher, from his live television appearances from the United States during the first few months of the Covid pandemic.
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