André Paul Guillaume Gide was born in Paris, French Empire, on 22 November 1869. He was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 “for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight”. Gide’s career ranged from … Περισσότερα

                                                                      ΣΥΜΒΙΩΣΗ ΓΕΝΙΩΝ Τι κι αν βρισκόμαστε στα μέσα Ιούνη και το καλοκαίρι έχει μπει για τα καλά, η ζωή συνεχίζεται με … Περισσότερα

Anna Seghers, real name Anna (Netty) Reiling   was born in Mainz, Germany, on 19 November 1900. She was a German writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. The pseudonym Anna Seghers was apparently based on the surname of the Dutch painter and printmaker Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers or Segers. Seghers was nominated for the 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature by the German Academy … Περισσότερα

Δικαίωμα στο όνειρο… Αυτό θα είναι το τελευταίο καλοκαίρι στην Ελλάδα, το φθινόπωρο θα φύγω, μού είπε κάποιος φίλος. Εδώ δεν τον κρατούν πολλά, μια κακοπληρωμένη δουλειά, η αισιοδοξία να έχει φτάσει στα τάρταρα, ανήμπορος πια, δε πιστεύει ότι θα τα καταφέρει. Eρχεται η ώρα της φυγής, σε μέρη που θέλει να ελπίζει πιο φιλόξενα, … Περισσότερα

Santiago Rafael Roncagliolo Lohmann was born in Lima, Peru on 29 March 1975. He is a Peruvian writer, screenwriter, translator and journalist. He has written five novels about fear. He is also author of a trilogy of non-fiction books on Latin American twentieth century. In 2006 his novel Red April won the Alfaguara Prize novel. In English, that novel received the … Περισσότερα

How a packet of cigarette become a piece of art. Thanks a lot Chrysoyla Skepetzi for the gift.

Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago, Illinois, U.S on July 23, 1888. He was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression.  Chandler also described the struggle that writers of pulp fiction had in following the formula demanded … Περισσότερα

                                                «ΔΙΚΑΙΗ» ΦΟΡΟΛΟΓΙΑ Σ’ ένα μυθιστόρημα του Ανατόλ Φράνς, γραμμένο ένα αιώνα πριν, «Το νησί των πιγκουίνων», ένας Όσιος καλόγερος ο Μαήλ έφερνε στο δρόμο του Θεού και βάπτιζε ανθρώπους που δε γνώριζαν τη Χάρη Του, έφτιαχνε εκκλησίες και διέδιδε την ορθή πίστη. Κάποτε σε βαθιά γεράματα, έχοντας απολέσει … Περισσότερα

                            PALESTINE VIEW THROUGH NEWSPAPER “TO PONTIKI”… 17 MAY 2018 17 MAY 2018 17 MAY 2018

Anatole France was born in Paris, Kingdom of France on 16 April 1844. He was a French poet, journalist, and successful novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature “in recognition of … Περισσότερα