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Nicholas Gage (1939- )

Greek-American author, journalist

Roth, Philip (1933-2018)

American author

McEwan, Ian (1948- )

A British author in Athens

Hawking, Stephen (1942-2018)

British scientist, physicist and mathematician

Ishiguro, Kazuo (1954- )

Japanese-born British novelist, recipient of 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature

Kounellis, Jannis (1936-2017)

Performance artist and sculptor associated with the Arte Povera movement.

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke (1939- )

Poet, translator, 2014 recipient of National Grand Literary Prize for Lifetime Achievement

Dario Fo (1926-2016)

Italian playwright, humorist, actor, set designer and director

Panayiotis Tetsis (1925 - 2016)

 Great Greek printmaker and painter from the island of Hydra

 

 

Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 – 1936)

80 years since the death of the Spanish poet and playwright

Giannis Moralis (1916-2009)

Artist2016: “The Year of Giannis Moralis”100 years since his birth

Umberto Eco (1932-2016)

Italian essayist, philosoper, literary critic and novelist.

Toni Morrison (1931- )

American novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1993), National Book Award Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (1996)

Antaios Chrysostomidis (1952 – 2015)

Author, translator, journalist

Titos Patrikios, 1928-

Poet, author and translator, member of the first generation of intellectuals in post-war Greece, Titos Patrikios was presented with the Special Hellenic State Prize for Literature in 1994.

Nikos Kazantzakis, 1883-1957

Novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, philosopher and politician.  One of the great figures of Modern Greek literature, with voluminous works across a wide breadth of genres and topics.

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Amartya Sen, 1933-

Indian economist.  Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1998.

 

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Maria Polydouri (1902-1930)

Greek neo-romantic poet

 

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Maya Angelou (1928-2014)

African-American poet and author

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Κostis Palamas (1859-1943)

155 years since his birth

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