NEWS
January 23, 2019
Modern Greek literature through a translator's lens
Victoria Hislop, Panos Karnezis, Patricia Barbeito, David Ricks, and Roderick Beaton discuss issues of translating Modern Greek literature: what their work – as authors and academics – has in common, and how it differs. This event is being held in collaboration with the British School at Athens and Aiora Press with the generous support of the Creative Europe programme.
Wednesday 23 January 2019, 18:00 to 19:30, King's College London, Strand Campus, London
October 20, 2018
An Evening with Panos Karnezis in Brussels
Join us on Sunday 21st October for an evening with London-based Greek writer Panos Karnezis. In a talk that includes a reading from his latest work, Panos will be discussing his books, including his latest novel, We Are Made of Earth, inspired by the refugee crisis, to be published in September 2019, and sharing his thoughts on Britain’s imminent departure from the EU and its effect on foreign writers living and working there.
Sunday, 21 October 2018 at 18:00 - Free Entrance - CliqueArt, Rue de l'église 90, 1150 Woluwé-Saint-Pierre, Brussels
September 20, 2018
Next novel to be published in 2019
Panos Karnezis's next novel, We Are Made of Eart, will be published in September 2019 by Myriad Editions.
When an overcrowded dinghy capsizes at sea, a doctor is among those refugees thrown overboard. In the ensuing panic, he saves one life and condemns another. The doctor and the boy he has saved—the only surviving witness to the crime—eventually reach a tiny Greek island where they are offered shelter by the owner of a small travelling circus, itself marooned in the off-season. Debt-ridden, the circus owner knows that his most valuable asset is an Asian elephant, far from her natural habitat but lovingly tended by the owner’s wife even as she mourns their 10-year old daughter.
October 16, 2017
Novel Encounters: Irish-Greek literary festival
Panos Karnezis will appear in a festival celebrating Greek and Irish fiction, hosted by the Durrell Library of Corfu in association with the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting of the Ionian University in Corfu.
The festival will present four Irish novelists and four Greek novelists in readings from their work and in presentations on the theme “Writing and Identity“