How did the Bard predict Trump? In October 8, 2016, exactly one month before the US elections, Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt wrote an article in The New York Times titled “Shakespeare explains the 2016 election.”
LITERATURE
Oxford University’s Foteini Dimirouli will be conducting an online seminar on “C.P. Cavafy in the World: Origins, Trajectories and the Diasporic Poet,” hosted by the British School at Athens.
In a letter to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a group of Greek publishers has called on the government to keep bookstores open during the universal lockdown that starts on Saturday, as is the case in Italy and Belgium.
The Angelos Sikelianos Museum is dedicated to the Greek lyric poet and playwright.
Exploring the elements that shape great personalities and the principles that define them is a process that is both fascinating and useful. One such endeavor was carried out by Vassilis Papadopoulos, a former ambassador and the general secretary of the Presidency of the Hellenic Republic, in his book “Diplomacy and Poetry: The Case of Giorgos Seferis,” published in Greek by Ikaros.
Award-winning Greek-American crime writer says he hopes we will come away from pandemic ‘with a greater appreciation of our existence.’
Ambassadors and other diplomats from 18 countries have rallied in support of Greece’s “Stay Home” campaign against the spread of coronavirus reciting Greek literature in a video posted on the Greek Foreign Ministry’s Facebook account Thursday.
Celebrated English author speaks to Kathimerini about some of the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic.
The death in February of Greek writer Alki Zei, at the age of 97, closes not only a life of distinguished authorship but also a period of Greek history which is about to come under review.
The Sianti Art Gallery in downtown Athens is hosting “Eros Kalos” (Good Love), a group exhibition presenting work by 21 artists alongside the work of as many writers and poets.
Much-awarded Greek novelist Alki Zei, whose work has been translated in more than 30 languages, has died at her home at the age of 97, her publisher announced.
Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke was not only one of modern Greece’s greatest poets; she was a first-rate translator of French, English (including, of all things, a translation of Dylan Thomas’ “Under Milk Wood”) and Russian verse. I have to take that on trust because I don’t read Russian, but she told me she thought the best translation she had ever done was of “Eugene Onegin.”
With two cruise liners anchored in the port of Argostoli, the streets of Kefalonia’s capital were packed with tourists. “Thankfully it’s a bit quieter here,” Professor Roderick Beaton said as we walked into a seaside restaurant on the Ionian island where he was on holiday with his wife.
The Hellenic American Union presents an exhibition of works by 70 Greek comic artists and illustrators in a show organized by Comicdom Press and the Hellenic American College (HAEC).
The prolific and esteemed Greek poet, novelist, playwright and translator Nanos Valaoritis has died, according to an announcement on his Facebook page. He was 98 years old, and “lived a life full of riches,” fellow poet Dinos Siotis said in a Facebook post.
All of us hope to lead one good life. The fortunate seem to pack enough into their time to live twice over. But Sir Patrick (known in English as “Paddy”) Leigh Fermor led three full lives.
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