The Independent said this about Petros Markaris’s The Late-Night News (UK title) or Deadline in Athens (US title):
It took a while for Athenian cop Inspector Haritos to reach us, but raise a glass of ouzo now he’s here. A gridlocked winter Athens is the far-from-mythical setting for linked tales of murder at the top (the […]

Reading about the premiere of Philip Glass’s opera Waiting for the Barbarians in Erfurt, Germany on September 10 (which has already been added to the Wikipedia reference! speedy!), I was reminded that I had read Cavafy in Greek before I arrived in Greece.
Glass’s opera is based on JM Coetzee’s book of the same title, […]

So, one of the first books I read (in full) in Greek was a book I could not read in English at that precise time because it was translated from the French into Greek before it was translated into English. And that book is Milan Kundera’s Ignorance, or Η ‘Αγνοια του Μίλαν Κούντερα.
I read […]

Wondering how many books I’ve read in Greek.
I arrived in Greece in August 1998 and couldn’t read newspaper headlines. Because I’ve always been a book addict I’d hang around the second-hand stores in Thisseio and browse and buy books I’d not read very soon. One of the first Greek books that I bought on […]

English language Kathimerini reports:
Mild September evenings are perfect for a visit to the annual outdoor book fair on Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, beneath the Acropolis.
Hundreds of publishers are participating in the fair, which is organized by the Publishers’ League (SEKB). The theme is “Greek Books in the World” and there will be a special exhibit of […]