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LITERATURE
Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla launched the Greek edition of his book describing his company’s race…
Speaking at the presentation of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla’s book at a special event in…
Greek is ranked as the richest language in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. It is well-known that languages all across the globe – including English – have borrowed a myriad of words, phrases and expressions from Greek. Here is a short list of English words that are used daily by English speakers that are fully taken from the Greek language.
Odysseus Elytis (Οδυσσέας Ελύτης) was one of the greatest poets of modern Greece. He…
Described as an “Ocean’s Eleven minus Brad Pitt meets Dan Brown, Byron and Thucydides”, ‘The Aegean Seven’ is a new historical fiction by Billy Cotsis for those who want to know more about the period in which and how the Parthenon Sculptures were taken. Despite many of the characters being purely fiction, the novel lays out what happened and how it happened on the eve of the Greek Revolution and freedom.
USC Dornsife, Kenyon College and the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation are launching a new…
Randstad, a leading human resources company in Greece, is hosting a one-hour webinar on “Language Jobs in Greece” on February 22, starting at 11 a.m.
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of ‘Ulysses’ by Irish writer James Joyce, widely regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. A committed philhellene. Joyce insisted that the cover of ‘Ulysses’ should match the blue of the Greek flag which hung in his Paris apartment.
Today is the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses by the Irish writer James…
Egypt’s Ministry of Awqaf said it has published a translation of the Holy Quran’s selected…
“Smyrna in Flames”, by the internationally acclaimed Mexican writer and poet Homero Aridjis lays bare…
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s highly anticipated directorial debut, The Lost Daughter, finally debuted on Netflix today. Premiering at Venice Film…
‘Her Voice: Greek Women and their Friends’ has been called an insightful anthology, and it contains the individual stories of 42 women – Greek Australian women and their friends to be precise – as they reflect upon the challenges that they have encountered on a myriad of levels in Australia over decades.
The Greek translation of the late Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg (“RBG”, 1933-2020), “My…
On December 10, 1963, Greek diplomat and poet Giorgos Seferis was awarded the Nobel Prize…
Stefanos Tsitsipas is ranked the fourth-best men’s tennis player in the world. Omicron is a…
Omicron can trace its roots as a word back to Ancient Greece. Specifically, the word…
The pandemic has affected the entire publishing sector, “but the book and its world have,…
The Greek Revolution of 1821, the foundation of modern Greece and Greco-Serbian relations up to…
