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Constantin Théotokis June 6, 2019 – Posted in: Auteurs

Né à Corfou dans une famille de l’aristocratie locale, Constantin Théotokis (1872-1923) introduisit le réalisme dans la prose grecque. Loin de donner une image idyllique de son île natale, ses nouvelles et ses romans évoquent la cruauté, la cupidité et les préjugés qui asservissent l’esprit et avilissent les sentiments de ses compatriotes. Cette peinture sans complaisance est influencée par sa conversion aux idées socialistes, qu’il découvrit au cours de séjours en Allemagne. Mais cet écrivain…

Constantin Cavàfis – Posted in: Auteurs

Constantin Cavàfis (1863-1933), Grec d’Alexandrie, a mené dans sa ville natale une existence obscure entièrement vouée à la poésie. Petit employé dans un ministère, méconnu de son vivant, il n’a été réellement publié qu’après sa mort. Il n’a pas vu sa notoriété peu à peu grandir au point qu’il passe aujourd’hui, aux yeux des Grecs, pour le poète capital de son siècle, et que son oeuvre est désormais traduite et admirée dans le monde entier.

Alexandre Papadiamantis – Posted in: Auteurs

Considéré dans son pays comme le grand prosateur classique des lettres grecques, Alexandre Papadiamantis (1851-1911) est l’auteur de quelques romans et surtout de près de cent-quatre-vingts nouvelles dont la plupart ont pour cadre Skiathos, son île natale. Solitaire bohème, écrivain décalé qui refusait l’intégration sociale et les modes littéraires, il a créé sous l’apparence d’une chronique de sa petite patrie une œuvre profondément symbolique, sensible au destin des égarés de la vie, de ceux pour…

Sofia Zarabouka June 5, 2019 – Posted in: Authors

Sofia Zarabouka is an author and illustrator of children books. Born in Athens she studied painting and theatre in Greece, and graphic arts and illustration in the United States. She is particularly known for her adaptations for children of the Greek Mythology, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, and ancient Greek dramas like Aristophanes’ comedies and Aeschylus’s Orestia. Sofia’s illustrations have been exhibited in many countries and feature in museum collections. She has received various awards both…

Simon Darragh – Posted in: Translators

Simon Darragh has translated among other things the works of Nikos Kavvadias, and Andreas Laskaratos’s Reflections (Aiora 2015). Foreign Correspondence (Peterloo 2000) is a volume of Darragh’s own poetry. Simon Darragh has been a Hawthornden Fellow, and a Translator in Residence at the University of East Anglia. He now lives noisily in the Northern Sporades.

Roderick Beaton – Posted in: Authors, Translators

Roderick Beaton grew up in Edinburgh and studied English Literature at Cambridge, before specialising in Modern Greek studies. For thirty years until his retirement he held the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King’s College London, and is now Emeritus. Roderick is the author of several books of non-fiction, one novel, and several translations of fiction and poetry, all of them connected to Greece and the Greek-speaking world. He…

Pythagoras – Posted in: Authors

Pythagoras, an important philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, was born on the island of Samos, probably in 585 BC. He studied with the philosopher Pherecydes in Syros and with Thales and Anaximander in Miletus, and travelled widely, including to Egypt, where he lived for more than twenty years, and Babylonia. Pythagoras eventually settled in Croton in southern Italy, where he founded his school. His teachings have come down to us thanks to his hundreds of…

Peter Mackridge – Posted in: Translators

Peter Mackridge (1946-2022) was Professor of Modern Greek at the University of Oxford. He published several books on modern Greek language and literature, including two co-authored grammars. His most recent translations are Thracian Tales by Georgios Vizyenos and a story by Alexandros Papadiamandis (both 2014), and The History of Western Philosophy in 100 Haiku by the 21st-century poet Haris Vlavianos (2015).

Panagiotis Stavropoulos – Posted in: Artists

Panagiotis Stavropoulos (b. 1962) is a painter and iconographer. He studied painting and engraving at the Gerrit Rietvelt Academy in Amsterdam, and has painted icons and frescoes in churches around Greece. From 1996 to 2014 he lived on the island of Tinos, where he focused mainly on sculpture. His work has been presented in solo exhibitions in Athens and Tinos. Panagiotis has also participated in several group exhibitions, and his artwork features on numerous covers…

Odysseus Elytis – Posted in: Authors

Odysseus Elytis (1911-1996) has been a leading figure in the “Generation of the 1930s”, whose poets, influenced by surrealism, renewed contemporary Greek poetry. During the post-war years he lived for long periods in France, where he associated with the pioneers of the world’s avant-garde (Reverdy, Tzara, Breton, Ungaretti, Matisse, Picasso, Giacometti). He published seventeen collections of poetry, translations from ancient Greek and modern European poets, and two volumes of prose. In 1979 he was awarded…