Haris Melitas was born in Athens, originally from the island of Cythera.
He is an architect from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and a former professor at the Higher School of Pedagogical and Technological Education (ASPAITE)
He has published 18 collections of poetry, including
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Kalliopi-Styliani Exarchou is an Associate Professor of Theatre Studies in the
Department of French Language and Literature in Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki. She teaches “History and Theory of Theatre”.
Her academic activity includes books, article publications, published
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Pétros Golítsis (b. 1978 in Thessaloniki) is an author of six volumes of verse; published in thirteen languages. His most recent publications include the “La carne de lo provisional” (in Spanish), translated by José Antonio Moreno Jurado, Padilla Libros, Seville, 2022
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Loukia Dervi was born in Athens 1972. She studied Hotel Management in Switzerland. Her published works comprise novels, a novella and several short stories. Her novella "Umbrellas in the sky" was in the short list for "Diavazo" literary prize and her novel "View on the Acropolis"
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Maria Papayanni was born in 1964 in Larisa. She studied Greek Language and Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, after which she worked as a journalist for radio, television, newspapers, and magazines. In 1996 she married music composer Thanos Mikroutsikos and they had two children.
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Michalis Z. Pitenis was born in Kozani. He studied at the Department of Italian Language and Philology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is a journalist and has worked in television, radio, newspapers and press offices.
He is a writer, who also wrote theatrical plays, while publishing
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Academic Studies
Diploma of the Doctor of Philology # 004856 Decree #10 Faculty of the Humanities of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University - 30.06.2005
Tbilisi State University, Specialty: Georgian language and literature/Greek Language and Literature Diploma: AH # 01025 - 1993-1998
Professional
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Krystalli was born in Athens in 1979. She holds a BSc in Philosophy and an MSc in Political Theory from the London School of Economics & Political Science, an MA in Philosophy of Religion from King’s College London, and in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, and a PhD in Media
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Thomas Tsalapatis was born in Athens in 1984. He studied theater at the University of Athens. His first collection “Daybreak is Slaughter, Mr. Krak” received the National Prize for best emerging author (2012) and has been translated in Italian by Viviana Maglio Sebastio and published by Editore
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Argyro Pipini is a writer, translator and actress. She studied Political Sciences and Theatre. She works as a drama teacher and as a translator for literature, theatre, and children’ s books, and hosts creative writing seminars, workshops and webinars for adults and children. She has received several
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Christos Kythreotis was born in Nicosia in 1979 and grew up in Athens. His first book, the short story collection «Just Fine» («Μια χαρά», Patakis, 2014, 2nd ed. 2021), received (by half) the National Book Award of Greece for Debut Book, and it was also short-listed for
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Mihalis Makropoulos was born in Athens in 1965 and studied biology in the University of Athens. He has published thirteen books for adults (novelettes, short story collections, a travelogue in Epirus) and four books for children. His novelette Mavro Nero (Black Water, 2019) was awarded with the National
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Yannis Palavos
Yannis Palavos, born in 1980 in the town of Velvendos in northern Greece, is a short story writer and translator. He studied Journalism and Arts Administration in Thessaloniki and Athens. The recipient of the Greek National Book Award (2013), Palavos is the author of three short story
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Motto: "For me, translating is a joy and a blessing. Each new book represents a new journey across cultures. I try to share this joy of mine with the reader of the language I translate into. This process makes me both a better translator and a better person, because I translate for the beauty I
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He was born in Athens in 1973. He studied Law. His first book of fiction was a collection of stories under the title of ‘‘Pseudonym’’ (2006). He has worked as a translator of English fiction. He has also written poetry and theatre plays.
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Anna Griva was born in Athens, where she lives and works. She studied Philology in Athens and Sciences and History of Literature in Rome. She has a PhD on Italian Renaissance Literature (UOA). She is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philology (University of Peloponnese). She has published
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Vagelis Iliopoulos was born in Athens in 1964.
He studied Pedagogy and Theology in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Today he is director at a private primary School.
His first children’s book published in 1995. In 1997 "O Trigonopsaroulis", (The
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Dr. Rena Molho taught the History of Greek Jewry in Panteion University in Athens.
She has also worked as interviewer, coordinator and historical counsellor for the Shoah Visual foundation, the Centropa and the United States Holocaust Museum of Memory oral history programs.
For
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Dimitris Varvarigos was born in Athens. He has studied script writing, playwriting
and literature “awarded by the writing school”.
He has written books for children, teenagers and adults.
His book called “Hypatia”, became a movie entitled /called “Agora” and theatrical
play
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He studied Pedagogy, Special Education and Greek Culture. He has specialized in the education of children with mental retardation and multiple disabilities - brain paralysis and has worked in special education schools. He taught at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, at teacher training seminars
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Dionysis N. Mousmoutis is an author, literary critic and publisher-editor in chief of the Greek monthly journal Historia Iconographimeni (History Illustrated).
Dionysis N. Mousmoutis was born in Athens and his origin is from Zakynthos. He has followed a course of Theater Studies at the Theater School
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Sotiris Sarakis (Ampelia, Agrinion, 1949) lives in Athens, where he came to live as a University student of Political Sciences and worked as a civil servant.
His first poetry collection was published as late as 1994, however it includedpoems that had been written between 1971 and 1985.
Literary
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Paola Maria Minucci was born in Grosseto in 1948.
She attended Italian literature studies at University of Florence with Piero Bigongiari and Silvio Ramat, and Greek literature in the Universities of Roma and Thessaloniki.
P.M. Minucci was Professor of New Greek Language and Literature at the Faculty
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2003-2022: I teach at the Music School of Alimos. I write literary and theatre critique, for the last ten years, with the book website bookpress.gr
Since 1999: I am a member of the Hellenic Center of the International Theater Institute I.T.I. (ΕΚΔΙΘ).
Since
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He attended the 13th Boys’ High School of Athens. He is a graduate of the “Doxiadis” Middle Technical School 1966, and an Architect, DESA 1977, (Special School of Architecture – France-Paris). He worked both in the private and public sector. He published poetry in literary magazines
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Yorgos Gozis, Thessaloniki 1970. Possesses ΒΑ, Theology by the Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki and an MA in Ecclesiastical History, Christian Worship, Archaeology and Art, field of Hagiology. Fluent speaker of English, Russian, Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Montenegrin and Bosnian language.
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Stathis Gourgouris is a poet, essayist, translator, and sound artist. He was born in Hollywood but grew up in Athens. He earned his PhD in Comparative Literature at UCLA in 1990. Subsequently, he taught in a number of universities: Princeton, Michigan, UCLA, National Polytechnic, Yale,
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She studied French & Greek Literature (University of Athens) and holds a PhD (Doctorat Nouveau Régime) in General & Comparative Literature, (Sorbonne -Paris III). For several years she taught Modern Greek Literature with comparative aspects at the Centre for Open and Distance Learning
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Giorgos Gotis was born in Andravida, Greece in 1956. He studied Dentistry. He has published eight poetic collections: “ At early dawn” (1988), “Natural History” (1991),”Hidden Image”(1999), “Chronography”(2007), “Without map”(2011) , “Elementary
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Sofia Kolotourou was born in Athens in 1973. She studied Medicine at the University of Crete (1998) and specialized in Cytology (2003). In 2022 she graduated from the Postgraduate Programme in Creative Writing of the University of Western Macedonia (stream: literature). She is deaf. She was Chair of
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Anna Afentoulidou is a philologist. She is a holder of a Master's Degree in Creative Writing (postgraduate studies in Surrealism and in Cypriot literature). She is a poet (Short List of State Poetry Award 2014 of the Ministry of Culture) and a literary critic. She is the author of 6 books and participated
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Thodoris Gkonis works in theatre. He writes novels, poems and lyrics for songs. He anthologies and adapts literary texts, travelogues and testimonies which he also directs in theatre. At this period of time he is artistic director in Municipal and Regional Theatre of Kavala and in Philippi Festival.
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