Meet the Authors

 

Saturday, January 20th 2018

17:30 -20:30 pm

 

The Society for Modern Greek Studies, in collaboration with the Cambridge Hellenic Learned Society, invites you to attend an evening of presentations of new books by its members:

 

Greece in British Women's Literary Imagination,

Edited by Semele Assinder, Eleni Papargyriou and David Holton (Peter Lang)

 

Culture and Society in Crete. From Kornaros to Kazantzakis,

Edited by Liana Giannakopoulou and Kostas Skordyles (Cambridge Scholars)

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Brief presentations of three translations published by Colenso Books:

Konstantinos Theotokis, Corfiot tales, translated by J.M.Q. Davies.

Konstantinos Theotokis, The life and death of Hangman Thomas, translated by J.M.Q. Davies.

 Iakovos Kambanellis, Three plays:  The courtyard of wonders -- The four legs of the table -- Ibsenland, translated by Marjorie Chambers

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Harris Psarras (University of Cambridge) will read a selection of poems from his recent collection

 

 

The Centre at St Paul’s

Hills Road

Cambridge CB2 1JP

 

Reception to follow. During this time, the Cambridge Hellenic Learned Society will cut its Vasilopita

Crèche available free of charge