In memory of Frieda Liappa I dreamt that it was evening –and it was. I could hear nearby the bells from a flock, scattered here and there. The flock moved onwards, hidden behind the night greens of osier willows and oleanders. I followed the course of its sound and I began to walk. Above […]
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It was one of those nights when our Athens was stewing in its own juice, a mixture of exhaust fumes, burnt plastic, teargas, despair. We struggled to seal off all the cracks; the air slipped through the air-conditioning units and stung our nostrils. Our eyes were watering and we were scared, yet the worst of […]
I was sitting one evening after supper in St. Stephen’s Casino at Ramleh. My friend Alexander A., who resided in the Casino, had invited me and another young man, an intimate friend of ours, to have supper with him. Since it was not an evening with music, very few people had come, and my two […]
Rhea Galanaki was born in Crete in 1947. She is one of the most important Greek writers today. Galanaki studied history and archeology in Athens and has published novels, short stories, essays, and poetry. In 2004, she won the Athens National Academy Award. Her book The life of Ismail Ferik Pasha (1989) was the first […]
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933) was a Greek poet, who’s individual style rendered him one of the most important figures not only in Greek poetry but in Western poetry as well. He was born Konstantínos Pétrou Kaváfis in Alexandria, Egypt, the ninth child of Constantinopolitan parents of illustrious ancestry. His father, a successful merchant in the […]
Kostas Katsoularis is a Greek writer. He was born in 1968 in the city of Arta in the Epirus region, and currently lives and works in Athens. He studied economics in Athens, film in Paris, and literature in Salonica. To date, he has published seven books of prose, a play that has been staged, and […]
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