Née à Alger, Jeanne Roques-Tesson étudie les lettres classiques à l’université de Rouen. Professeur de français, latin, grec pendant dix ans, elle quitte la Normandie pour s’installer en Grèce où elle enseigne à l’Institut Français de Salonique puis d’Athènes, avant de se consacrer à la traduction. Elle collabore avec le Centre du cinéma grec (dialogues et scénarios, notamment de Théo Angelopoulos). Outre des guides, ouvrages et articles spécialisés (histoire ancienne et byzantine, sciences sociales), elle a…
Continue readingAngélos Terzakis (1907-1979), qui fut aussi dramaturge, nouvelliste et essayiste, est surtout connu en Grèce pour son oeuvre romanesque dont les personnages, pris dans l’étau d’une société étriquée, sont confrontés à des rêves que leur environnement ne leur permet pas de réaliser. Avec son unique roman historique La Princesse Isabeau (1945), tout en conservant la tonalité pessimiste de ses récits plus contemporains, il ouvre son inspiration aux rebondissements d’une intrigue trépidante et au souffle puissant…
Continue readingStelios Kouloglou is a writer, journalist and director. He is the author of several books, including novels, memoirs and political history. He was a correspondent in Paris and Moscow during the perestroika era and, from 1992 to 1995, covered the war in the former Yugoslavia. His TV show, Reportage without Frontiers, for which he was editor-in-chief and presenter, was described as ‘the symbol of investigative journalism in Greece’. In 2008 he founded tvxs.gr, Greece’s first…
Continue readingMargarita Liberaki (1919–2001) entered onto the literary stage at a young age. Her first novel, The Trees, appeared in 1945, when she was still in her mid-twenties, and was followed shortly after by the acclaimed Straw Hats (published in English as Three Summers). Ιn 1946 she moved to Paris, where she wrote The Other Alexander. The book was first published in 1950 in Greek, followed by English and French editions which met with immediate success.…
Continue readingKonstantinos Markopoulos (b. 1977) is a painter and illustrator. He studied Visual & Applied Arts at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and currently teaches art in primary education. He has illustrated numerous books for adults and children; his work also includes painting and handicraft. In 2015 Konstantinos was awarded the Greek National Prize for Illustrated Children Books for The Angry Cement Mixer (Epomenos Stathmos, 2013). His artwork features on several covers of the Modern Greek Classics series of Aiora Press.
Continue readingNikos Engonopoulos (1907-1985) was born in Athens with family roots in Constantinople on his father’s side and in Hydra on his mother’s side. In 1914, following the outbreak of the First World War, his family moved to Constantinople where he attended a private school. He continued his education in Paris as a boarder at high school from 1919 to 1927. After returning to Athens and completing his national service, he enrolled in the School of…
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