Writers / Speakers

«Amaltheia – To koritsi me ta kerata» (“Amalthea – The Girl with the Horns”) by Alexandros Chatzipanagiotis
Through a novel set in the village of Sfentyli in 1962, the author Alexandros Chatzipanagiotis, also a film director and screenwriter, highlights the history and mythology, the customs and traditions, the legends and folklore of Crete.

Co-organised by Mitos Publishing

3rd Chania Book Festival 2024

The archaeological construction of Europe: orientalism, myths of whiteness, and the Global South
Yannis Hamilakis, Professor of Archaeology and Modern Greek Studies at Brown University, USA (“Archaiologia, ethnos kai fyli”/“Archaeology, Nation and Race”, “Archaiologia kai Evropaiki Neoterikotita”/“Archaeology and European Modernity”), discusses with Manolis Pimplis, Chania Book Festival director, about how archaeological accounts of the “Minoans” proclaimed Crete, cradle of the “first European civilization”, how archaeologists contributed to the Europeanization of Greece and the production of a geopolitics of whiteness, and how we could rethink Greece in the context of the debate on the Global South.

Co-organized by Eikostos Protos Publishing

3rd Chania Book Festival 2024

“Running” by Cara Hoffman
A story of survival, “beautiful and atmospheric” (Kirkus Reviews), crafted by the American author who “writes like a dream—a disturbing, emotionally charged dream” (The Wall Street Journal). The author discusses with journalist and author Dionysis Marinos. 

Co-organized by Gutenberg Publishing

3rd Chania Book Festival 2024