Curator and writer Ian Collins has been awarded the Runciman Award for his book “John Craxton: A Life of Gifts” (Yale UP), published in 2021, which recounts the life and career of the Philhellene painter and designer.
LITERATURE
Eight titles have been short-listed for this year’s Runciman Award which is expected to be announced next month.
In 1939, American journalist Dorothy Thompson, who was expelled from Germany after reporting on the rise of the Nazi movement, convened an emergency summit of writers in response to the violence unfolding in Europe.
An international project that facilitates access to Greek literature for speakers of English by providing references to all English-language translations of modern Greek literature and to all studies in English that relate to modern Greek literature will be presented at an online event on Tuesday, April 5.
The Athens Conservatory is dedicating World Poetry Day on Monday to composer Mikis Theodorakis, who died last September at the age of 96.
Maureen Howard, who first drew wide attention in 1965 with her novel “Bridgeport Bus,” which came to be regarded as a precursor to second-wave feminism, and went on to write ambitious, well-regarded books for 45 more years, died Sunday in the New York City borough of Manhattan. She was 91.
Poet, novelist, professor and a great friend of Greece, Edmund Keeley died on Wednesday at the age of 94. The son of an American diplomat, he was born in Damascus and lived in Greece for a few years before settling in the United States.
Commemorating two years since the death of the trailblazing existentialist Greek poet Kiki Dimoula at the age of 88 on February 22, 2020, Parliament is presenting an exhibition dedicated to her life and work.
The Swedish Academy that chooses the Nobel Laureates in Literature said Monday it was following the case against Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, who is under investigation for allegedly insulting modern Turkey’s founder in his latest novel.
For many years, Marie Wilcox was the guardian of the Wukchumni language, one of several Indigenous languages that were once common in Central California but have either disappeared or nearly disappeared. She was the only person for a time who could speak it fluently.
Greek literature for children fails to portray the diversity of the world around us in realistic terms, according to a new study, which found that less than 3% of the children’s books published in the last decade feature characters with special needs or with migrant or Romani backgrounds.
Greek state broadcaster ERT on Saturday premieres a new series inspired by Victoria Hislop’s “Cartes Postales from Greece,” a drama of one man’s odyssey, narrated through a series of postcards.
President Katerina Sakellaropoulou at the house of Angelos Sikelianos, near the archaeological site of Delphi, on the slopes of Mt Parnassus in central Greece on Saturday.
The Greek National Opera commissioned three young local composers doing interesting work – Ioannis Angelakis, Aspasia Nasopoulou and Orestis Papaioannou – to pen original work inspired by Lord Byron’s elegies to John Edleston
Freedom, “ελευθερία” is a most noble value. Since ancient times, more so in the last 200 years since its War of Independence started, it is Greece’s greatest contribution to the European spirit, the spirit of the free world.
PARIS – A few years ago, Julien Berjeaut was a cartoonist coming off a hit series when he received the rarest of offers in the French-speaking world: taking over a comic book classic, Lucky Luke.
[nx_login_form]x
