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Our friends at the British School at Athens are already preparing for 2021, the bicentennial of the start of the Greek War of Independence. They’ve launched #21poemsinto21, 21 modern Greek poems read by twenty-first-century philhellenes. Prof. Gonda Van Steen, director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies at KCL, read Kostas Karyotakis’ ‘Delphic Festival’ (featured above). The whole seriesContinue reading “21 Poems Into 21”

‘Towards an English Translation of Andreas Karkavitsas’ The Archaeologist (1904)’ Johanna Hanink (Brown University) is working on a translation of Andreas Karkavitsas’ 1904 novella ‘The Archaeologist’, to be published in 2021 with Penguin Classics. This will be the first Penguin Classic edition of a work by a Modern Greek prose author. The novella, written inContinue reading “PODCAST: KCL Departmental Seminar With Johanna Hanink”

Prof Gonda Van Steen interviews Yannis Zervos, author of Passage to Paradise (2020), about his new work.