The Benaki Museum has announced the re-opening of the home where Irish writer Patrick Leigh Fermor and his wife, the English photographer Joan, spent some of the best years of their lives, in Kardamyli in the Peloponnese's Mani region.
LITERATURE
Zappeio Hall is hosting the 48th edition of the Association of Book Publishers' annual festival from August 30 to September 15. This year's theme is how literature has inspired and informed the arts.
After conducting an international literary contest, Eyelands magazine and Strange Day Books present the 5th Sand Festival, during which selected winners will read their works of fiction and poetry on the shores of Possidi Beach in Halkidiki, just an hour’s drive from the cosmopolitan city of Thessaloniki.
This year’s International Festival of Literature and Art, organized by the Kazantzakis Museum in the village of Myrtia, close to Iraklio on Crete, has the celebrated Greek writer’s travel book “Japan-China” as its starting point.
On April 18, during a riot in Derry, the second city of Northern Ireland, a 29-year-old journalist, Lyra McKee, was shot dead, probably by a paramilitary republican.
“Alekos Fassianos, Vangelis Chronis – 30 Years of Friendship, Paintings and Poetry,” on show at the Theocharakis Foundation, presents the artist and the poet’s constructive collaboration.
Professor and curator Erato Hadjisavva recently invited 25 students at the Athens School of Fine Arts to meet influential Greek poet Titos Patrikios, familiarize themselves with his significant body of work and create a painting inspired by one of his poems.
Harvard Library has held an event to mark its acquisition of the archive of Greek poet and lyricist Nikos Gatsos, originally announced in June last year.
In 1914, the writer Nikos Kazantzakis visited Mount Athos with his friend the poet Angelos Sikelianos.
The Museum of Modern Greek Culture in the 18th century Tzistarakis Mosque presents Lydia Venieri's “Byronic Heroes,” a critically acclaimed collection of paintings inspired by the characters in Lord Byron's stories.
The Goethe Institute has invited two renowned Greek writers, Amanda Michalopoulou and Elena Penga, who write in other languages and whose work has been translated into multiple languages, to discuss the process, the pitfalls and the benefits.
The exhibition “When the Light Dances, I Speak Fairly – George Seferis and his Poetry through Painting and Photography” illustrates the distinguished Greek poet’s talent and highlights the impact of his writing on visual artists – including both his peers and younger generations.
Much loved in Greece, Robert Frost (1874-1963) visited the country 58 years ago as a guest of the Hellenic American Union, which is paying tribute to the American poet with a special event on Wednesday, March 13.
The Athens Municipal Gallery is exhibiting a collection of books on loan from the Corfu Museum of Asian Art that celebrate the sophisticated Japanese art of print making.
The New York Review of Books has published a letter signed by dozens of academics and writers calling on the presidents of the European Commission and Council, Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk, respectively, to “use all means” at their disposal to “save” the Athens Review of Books from “ongoing persecution” by former foreign minister Nikos Kotzias.
The Public book and multimedia store has invited award-winning up-and-coming Australian writer Hannah Kent to speak with fans and sign books at its central Athens and Thessaloniki branches.
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