Boukalas Pantelis

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