Boukalas Pantelis

Pantelis Boukalas: “So We May Rise Once Again to the Stature of Our Beauty”
Part 1: An event in honor of the poet, essayist, translator, and journalist Pantelis Boukalas (Grand Prize for Letters 2024). Speakers will include Angeliki Karathanasi-Manousaki, philologist and author; Vangelis Chatzivassiliou, literary critic; and Pantelis Boukalas himself. The introduction will be given by Manolis Pimplis, director of the Chania Book Festival. A greeting will be delivered by the Deputy Mayor for Culture of Chania, Giannis Giannakakis. Moderated by Vassilis Kimoulis, member of the organizing team of the Chania Book Festival.

Part 2: Musicians Giannis Chinos and Alexandros Ieronymidis will engage in a melodic conversation with Pantelis Boukalas about folk music in Crete specifically and in Greece more broadly.

CO-ORGANIZED BY: Agra Publishers.

4th Chania Book Festrival 2025

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Honorary event for Nikos Psilakis
An event dedicated to the work and memory of the great journalist, folklorist and writer Nikos Psilakis, with speakers Stavros Arnaoutakis, regional governor of Crete, Pantelis Boukalas, poet, essayist, translator and journalist, Thanasis Babanevas, representative of the Union of Journalists of Daily Newspapers of the Peloponnese, Epirus, and Islands and Maria Charalambaki, president of the Heraklion Prefecture Philologists’ Union. Moderation: Giorgos Patroudakis, journalist and photographer. The greeting will be delivered by Kyriakos Kortesis, President of the Union of Journalists of Daily Newspapers of the Peloponnese, Epirus, and Islands.

CO-ORGANIZED BY: Karmanor Publishing

4th Chania Book Festrival 2025

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The poetry of Dionysios Solomos and the Greek Revolution of 1821

The writer, journalist, and folk song scholar Pantelis Boukalas discusses our national poet, Dionysios Solomos, who “baptized” in the Greek Revolution of 1821. Observing the Revolution fervently from his homeland, Zakynthos, where refugees from Messolonghi and Moria sought refuge, Solomos was acclaimed as a warrior of literature, not of chariots. Through the diverse forms of his poetry and prose, he stood among the forefront figures of his century, with a pan-European influence, and established the “self-educated” language of the people as the remedy for the art of speech.

1st Chania Book Festival 2022