Books
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Entries open for writers to enter their works to literary competition
Entries are now open for the Greek-Australian Cultural League (GACL) Literary competition for works written in Greek and/or English by writers who are over 18 years of age and reside …
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Greek – Australian writers to be showcased next month at Greek Festival of Sydney
The 40th Greek Festival of Sydney is devoting a day to presentations of recently-published books in English by Greek-Australian writers in collaboration with UTS Journalism and Writing. Although very different …
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Over the fence and into a book: Yiayia Next Door turns tragedy to triumph
Yiayia’s call over the fence has become as familiar of a sound as a notification ping or a phone ringing to siblings Daniel and Luke Mancuso. The brothers’ set up …
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Greek author Corteau shortlisted for EBRD book prize
Less than a year after Neos Kosmos announced that Greek author’s Auguste Corteau’s (Petros Hatzopoulos) novel The Book of Katerina was translated into English, it has been shortlisted on the …
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‘Finding Teo’: Australian author Marjorie Morrissey writes about another ‘lost’ child of the Greek Civil War era
During the Greek Civil War more than 50,000 people died and more than 500,000 Greeks were displaced from their homes. 24,000 children left the country for unknown destinations. By the …
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Presentation on how to become a citizen of Greece by descent
If you want to find out more about obtaining Greek citizenship, author Danae Andrea Konidaris will be providing an online presentation from Mentone Public Library on Saturday, 12 March. Ms …
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Christos Tsiolkas seeks beauty in the new world of puritans
We meet in Christos’ back-alley office in Thornbury. Our orbits crossover every few years. We first met in the early 1990s both sons of post-war Greek migrants who shared similar …
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A Greek Australian detective captures fans of crime fiction across the world
The Stoning, Peter Papathanasiou’s first crime novel, with a Greek Australian Detective Sergeant as the protagonist, marks the beginning of a series, that has excited fans of the Outback Noir …
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Her young son’s words spurred Mary Anastasiou’s dream to write
It took her six-year-old son Lukas, to put into words the dreams that had long occupied Mary Anastasiou. His words were a call to action and the result is three …
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The Parthenon Marbles Return to Greece – A ‘revisionist’ historical fiction from Billy Cotsis
When an Earl from ‘Elgin’ visits the Acropolis with a Neapolitan artist, it sets in motion a chain of events that leads to the theft of monuments from the sacred …