Answering thalassa_mikra’s tag.
Total Number of Books I Own:
I counted over 250 books on my bookshelf here in Greece. This bookshelf dates back to 2000. There are many more books back in Sydney. Most of which are in boxes and some on a bookshelf in my folks’ home.
Last Book I Bought:
Deadfolk by Charlie […]

Kathimerini reports:
The state-run National Book Center of Greece (EKEBI) has run up debts of 3 million euros, Deputy Culture Minister Petros Tatoulis said yesterday. Partly to blame for the bill is Greece’s participation in the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair at a cost of 10 million euros — of which EKEBI still owes 600,000 euros, Tatoulis […]

Dr.George Kanarakis writes an overview of Greek-Australian literature for The Cud.
He goes back a hundred years to the oral poetics of Nikos Kallinikos and Nikos Paizis, both from the island of Ithaca, to the very first Australian-Greek newspaper called Afstralia where prose pieces (Greek-language short stories) by the Cypriot George Nicolaides, appeared in 1913, […]

Science Daily reports on University of Liverpool’s Dr Karen Ni-Mheallaigh’s research into the tradition of fantasy in ancient literature beginning with Odysseus’ “fantastic travels in Homer’s Odyssey.” She examines “theories of modern science fiction writing and how these can be applied to texts from the ancient world.”
Dr Ni-Mheallaigh is basically studying the work of […]

Looking good is Christos Tsiolkas’s third novel Dead Europe. Read the Australian review of the book by the Australian-Greek author who wrote the fab Loaded (made into a film by Anna Kokkinos and starring Alex Dimitriades).
Synopsis:
Isaac is a photographer in his mid-thirties, travelling through Europe. It is the post-Cold War Europe of a united […]

I’m thinking of doing a “Last Days of Kostas Karyotakis” thing. Um. That is, to do a walkthrough of the few weeks leading up to his suicide in Preveza back in 1928. (I live in Preveza so the subject of Karyotakis is, rather, dear to me.) He arrived on June 20 in 1928. So, […]

Albanian born, Tirana University educated, and political refugee Ismail Kadare was awarded the inaugural Man Booker International Prize on June 2.

What the judges said:
“Ismail Kadaré is a writer who maps a whole culture - its history, its passion, its folklore, its politics, its disasters. He is a universal writer in a tradition of storytelling that […]