The 40th Book Festival was inaugurated on September 4 by Hellenic Republic President Karolos Papoulias, at the Zappeion Gardens in downtown Athens. More than 50,000 titles by 150 publishers are presented at the festival which this year is dedicated to the 2011 European Year of Volunteering.
The festival also features a pavilion dedicated to books and magazines that were censored or prohibited during the 7-year dictatorship in Greece and a pavilion set up by the National Transplants Organisation with informational material on organ donation. The Festival runs through September 18.
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The National Book Centre of Greece (EKEBI) inaugurates the first Greek Festival for Young Authors on December 9-10 which will be held at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation.
The British Council in Athens, in collaboration with the School of English Language and Literature and the School of Drama at the Aristotle University of Athens are organizing a homage to celebrated British playwright Harold Pinter .
Paying tribute to the centenary of the birth of poet Nikos Gatsos, the Benaki Museum (Pireos Street Annex) is hosting an international conference, focusing on the study of the oeuvre of the poet of Amorgos.
Zagori is an area of great natural beauty and unique architecture in the Pindus Mountains in Epirus in Northwestern Greece. The area is of about 1.000 square kilometers and contains 46 villages. Zagoria villages is called by Greeks “Zagorochoria” meaning the villages behind the mountain.
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