Pantelis Boukalas: “So We May Rise Once Again to the Stature of Our Beauty”
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.
CO-ORGANIZED BY: Agra Publishers.
4th Chania Book Festival 2025
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Poetic voices of Crete: Creating Poetry, Crossing Boundaries
Three poets, Eleni Marinaki, Marinella Vlachaki and Katerina Vlachaki, who live and create in Crete today, discuss the limits they are called upon to overcome, the recording of their physical and psychological traumas and the redemptive power of poetry. Moderation: Angeliki Karathanassi-Manousaki, Philologist and writer.
1st Chania Book Festival 2022