Main Library

At the largest school library in Greece, we offer junior high and high school students all the necessary tools to do research projects and deepen their knowledge.

Athens College Library began its operation in the 1930s within the spaces of Benaki Hall.  Its collection was organized more systematically in the 1950s.  Since 1964, it is housed in its own 1300 m2 building on the Psychico campus, a structure designed by architect and Athens College alumnus, Pavlos Mylonas.

Opening Hours:  Monday-Friday 08.15-17.00, Saturday 11:00-16:00

During holidays and summer break, operating hours may change. 

 

At the Main Athens College Library, we have:

  • 100,000 Greek and foreign volumes in Greek and English
  • subscriptions to electronic databases
  • 200 current titles of printed and digital journals/magazines and newspapers
  • a rich selection of audiovisual materials
  • 200 study stations and 140 computers & laptops
  • the D-Space institutional repository in order to collect, organize, promote, and maintain materials produced at the College

 

My innocent absence: exile on three continents.

My innocent absence: exile on three continents.

“The routine for Miriam Frank as a child was to flee without family or home, except her mother. She was born in Barcelona, in the year the Spanish Civil War broke out. Her mother was German and her father American, both were of Jewish descent. But when Franco won she and her mother had to flee to France, only to flee again from the Nazis to relative safety in war-time Casablanca. From there on to Mexico, New Zealand, Israel, and, ultimately, Britain, where she was finally able to make her home."
Author : Frank, Miriam
Edition : Arcadia Books

Frank, Miriam. My innocent absence: exile on three continents. Arcadia Books, 2010.

“The routine for Miriam Frank as a child was to flee without family or home, except her mother. She was born in Barcelona, in the year the Spanish Civil War broke out. Her mother was German and her father American, both were of Jewish descent. But when Franco won she and her mother had to flee to France, only to flee again from the Nazis to relative safety in war-time Casablanca. From there on to Mexico, New Zealand, Israel, and, ultimately, Britain, where she was finally able to make her home. In this poignant memoir Frank paints a vivid portrait of a life as refugee through the colourful images of a child’s eye from Collioure and Oran in France; from the Casablance immortalised by Bogart and Bergman, to markets from Mexico’s Xochilmilco and Rome’s Campo di Fiori.”

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- from Amazon.com

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

The author introducing herself

Frank_Miriam“I was born in Spain at the time of the Civil War, spent my early years in Vichy France, received my primary education in Mexico and my secondary school and university education in New Zealand where I graduated in medicine. I returned to Europe and settled in London, where I obtained my London Fellowship in Anaesthesia and was appointed Senior Lecturer and Consultant at the Royal London Hospital. Concurrent with my hospital work and since retiring, I have translated literary works from Spanish into English and launched into my own writing. My autobiography, My Innocent Absence, Arcadia Books, was published in 2010. I am married and have two daughters.”              

-from the author's website

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Critiques

 

Μαρίζα Ντεκάστρο, Ιστορίες μιας νομαδικής ζωής, www.oanagnostis.gr, 4.9.2017

Αλέξανδρος Ακριτίδης. Εξόριστη σε τρεις ηπείρους, www.apostaktirio.gr/index.php/βιβλία-που-λάβαμε/item/9532-ο-αλέξανδρος-ακριτίδης-σχολιάζει-το-βιβλίο-της-μίριαμ-φράνκ-«εξοριστη-σε-τρεισ-ηπειρουσ-»-εκδόσεις-καπόν-μετάφραση-μανώλης-αλυγιζάκης, 13.7.2017

Amanda Hopkinson, My innocent absence: tales from a nomadic life, by Miriam Frank, www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/my-innocent-absence-tales-from-a-nomadic-life-by-miriam-frank-2066926.html, 31.8.2010

 

 

 


 

 

 

  Books by Miriam Frank in English and Greek

 

 Frank_Miriam

Frank, Miriam. Εξόριστη σε τρεις ηπείρους: ιστορίες μιας νομαδικής ζωής. Εκδόσεις Καπόν, 2016.

An unfinished portrait: journeys around my mother. Gibson Square Books Ltd, 2017

 

 

 

 

Frank_Miriam

 

 

 


 

 

Interesting websites and videos

http://www.miriam-frank.com/ (Η προσωπική ιστοσελίδα της M. Frank)

http://www.athensvoice.gr/363279_serifos (ΗM. Frank γράφει στην Athens voice για το σπίτι της στη Σέριφο)

http://www.documentonews.gr/article/miriam-frank-o-xerizwmos-afhse-bathy-shmadi-sth-zwh-moy (Συνέντευξη της M. Frank στην Έμυ Ντούρου)

http://www.iapopsi.gr/miriam-frank-oi-koiones-anages-enonoun-tous-laous/ (Συνέντευξη της M. Frank στην Καίτη Νικολοπούλου)

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/miriam-frank-reading-sharpened-my-understanding-of-human-behaviour-1.2075486 (Συνέντευξη της M. Frank στον Martin Doyle)

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/galleries/miriam-frank (Φωτογραφίες της M. Frank στην ιστοσελίδα του Radio New Zealand)

http://www.exiledwriters.co.uk/portfolio-items/miriam-frank/ (Παρουσίαση της M. Frank στο Exiled writers ink)

http://www.postmodern.gr/i-miriam-frank-kani-ton-kosmo-na-miazi-me-ligotero-monachiko-meros-synentefxi/ (Συνέντευξη της M. Frank στην Τίνα Πανώριου)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imTKIngtm1Y (Η M. Frank μιλάει για την εμπειρία της εξορίας από την αρχαιότητα έως σήμερα) 

Frank_Miriam 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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My innocent absence: exile on three continents.

My innocent absence: exile on three continents.

“The routine for Miriam Frank as a child was to flee without family or home, except her mother. She was born in Barcelona, in the year the Spanish Civil War broke out. Her mother was German and her father American, both were of Jewish descent. But when Franco won she and her mother had to flee to France, only to flee again from the Nazis to relative safety in war-time Casablanca. From there on to Mexico, New Zealand, Israel, and, ultimately, Britain, where she was finally able to make her home."
Author : Frank, Miriam
Edition : Arcadia Books

Frank, Miriam. My innocent absence: exile on three continents. Arcadia Books, 2010.

“The routine for Miriam Frank as a child was to flee without family or home, except her mother. She was born in Barcelona, in the year the Spanish Civil War broke out. Her mother was German and her father American, both were of Jewish descent. But when Franco won she and her mother had to flee to France, only to flee again from the Nazis to relative safety in war-time Casablanca. From there on to Mexico, New Zealand, Israel, and, ultimately, Britain, where she was finally able to make her home. In this poignant memoir Frank paints a vivid portrait of a life as refugee through the colourful images of a child’s eye from Collioure and Oran in France; from the Casablance immortalised by Bogart and Bergman, to markets from Mexico’s Xochilmilco and Rome’s Campo di Fiori.”

.

- from Amazon.com

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

The author introducing herself

Frank_Miriam“I was born in Spain at the time of the Civil War, spent my early years in Vichy France, received my primary education in Mexico and my secondary school and university education in New Zealand where I graduated in medicine. I returned to Europe and settled in London, where I obtained my London Fellowship in Anaesthesia and was appointed Senior Lecturer and Consultant at the Royal London Hospital. Concurrent with my hospital work and since retiring, I have translated literary works from Spanish into English and launched into my own writing. My autobiography, My Innocent Absence, Arcadia Books, was published in 2010. I am married and have two daughters.”              

-from the author's website

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

 

Critiques

 

Μαρίζα Ντεκάστρο, Ιστορίες μιας νομαδικής ζωής, www.oanagnostis.gr, 4.9.2017

Αλέξανδρος Ακριτίδης. Εξόριστη σε τρεις ηπείρους, www.apostaktirio.gr/index.php/βιβλία-που-λάβαμε/item/9532-ο-αλέξανδρος-ακριτίδης-σχολιάζει-το-βιβλίο-της-μίριαμ-φράνκ-«εξοριστη-σε-τρεισ-ηπειρουσ-»-εκδόσεις-καπόν-μετάφραση-μανώλης-αλυγιζάκης, 13.7.2017

Amanda Hopkinson, My innocent absence: tales from a nomadic life, by Miriam Frank, www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/my-innocent-absence-tales-from-a-nomadic-life-by-miriam-frank-2066926.html, 31.8.2010

 

 

 


 

 

 

  Books by Miriam Frank in English and Greek

 

 Frank_Miriam

Frank, Miriam. Εξόριστη σε τρεις ηπείρους: ιστορίες μιας νομαδικής ζωής. Εκδόσεις Καπόν, 2016.

An unfinished portrait: journeys around my mother. Gibson Square Books Ltd, 2017

 

 

 

 

Frank_Miriam

 

 

 


 

 

Interesting websites and videos

http://www.miriam-frank.com/ (Η προσωπική ιστοσελίδα της M. Frank)

http://www.athensvoice.gr/363279_serifos (ΗM. Frank γράφει στην Athens voice για το σπίτι της στη Σέριφο)

http://www.documentonews.gr/article/miriam-frank-o-xerizwmos-afhse-bathy-shmadi-sth-zwh-moy (Συνέντευξη της M. Frank στην Έμυ Ντούρου)

http://www.iapopsi.gr/miriam-frank-oi-koiones-anages-enonoun-tous-laous/ (Συνέντευξη της M. Frank στην Καίτη Νικολοπούλου)

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/miriam-frank-reading-sharpened-my-understanding-of-human-behaviour-1.2075486 (Συνέντευξη της M. Frank στον Martin Doyle)

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/galleries/miriam-frank (Φωτογραφίες της M. Frank στην ιστοσελίδα του Radio New Zealand)

http://www.exiledwriters.co.uk/portfolio-items/miriam-frank/ (Παρουσίαση της M. Frank στο Exiled writers ink)

http://www.postmodern.gr/i-miriam-frank-kani-ton-kosmo-na-miazi-me-ligotero-monachiko-meros-synentefxi/ (Συνέντευξη της M. Frank στην Τίνα Πανώριου)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imTKIngtm1Y (Η M. Frank μιλάει για την εμπειρία της εξορίας από την αρχαιότητα έως σήμερα) 

Frank_Miriam 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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My innocent absence: exile on three continents.

My innocent absence: exile on three continents.

“The routine for Miriam Frank as a child was to flee without family or home, except her mother. She was born in Barcelona, in the year the Spanish Civil War broke out. Her mother was German and her father American, both were of Jewish descent. But when Franco won she and her mother had to flee to France, only to flee again from the Nazis to relative safety in war-time Casablanca. From there on to Mexico, New Zealand, Israel, and, ultimately, Britain, where she was finally able to make her home."
Author : Frank, Miriam
Edition : Arcadia Books

Frank, Miriam. My innocent absence: exile on three continents. Arcadia Books, 2010.

“The routine for Miriam Frank as a child was to flee without family or home, except her mother. She was born in Barcelona, in the year the Spanish Civil War broke out. Her mother was German and her father American, both were of Jewish descent. But when Franco won she and her mother had to flee to France, only to flee again from the Nazis to relative safety in war-time Casablanca. From there on to Mexico, New Zealand, Israel, and, ultimately, Britain, where she was finally able to make her home. In this poignant memoir Frank paints a vivid portrait of a life as refugee through the colourful images of a child’s eye from Collioure and Oran in France; from the Casablance immortalised by Bogart and Bergman, to markets from Mexico’s Xochilmilco and Rome’s Campo di Fiori.”

.

- from Amazon.com

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

The author introducing herself

Frank_Miriam“I was born in Spain at the time of the Civil War, spent my early years in Vichy France, received my primary education in Mexico and my secondary school and university education in New Zealand where I graduated in medicine. I returned to Europe and settled in London, where I obtained my London Fellowship in Anaesthesia and was appointed Senior Lecturer and Consultant at the Royal London Hospital. Concurrent with my hospital work and since retiring, I have translated literary works from Spanish into English and launched into my own writing. My autobiography, My Innocent Absence, Arcadia Books, was published in 2010. I am married and have two daughters.”              

-from the author's website

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

 

Critiques

 

Μαρίζα Ντεκάστρο, Ιστορίες μιας νομαδικής ζωής, www.oanagnostis.gr, 4.9.2017

Αλέξανδρος Ακριτίδης. Εξόριστη σε τρεις ηπείρους, www.apostaktirio.gr/index.php/βιβλία-που-λάβαμε/item/9532-ο-αλέξανδρος-ακριτίδης-σχολιάζει-το-βιβλίο-της-μίριαμ-φράνκ-«εξοριστη-σε-τρεισ-ηπειρουσ-»-εκδόσεις-καπόν-μετάφραση-μανώλης-αλυγιζάκης, 13.7.2017

Amanda Hopkinson, My innocent absence: tales from a nomadic life, by Miriam Frank, www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/my-innocent-absence-tales-from-a-nomadic-life-by-miriam-frank-2066926.html, 31.8.2010

 

 

 


 

 

 

  Books by Miriam Frank in English and Greek

 

 Frank_Miriam

Frank, Miriam. Εξόριστη σε τρεις ηπείρους: ιστορίες μιας νομαδικής ζωής. Εκδόσεις Καπόν, 2016.

An unfinished portrait: journeys around my mother. Gibson Square Books Ltd, 2017

 

 

 

 

Frank_Miriam

 

 

 


 

 

Interesting websites and videos

http://www.miriam-frank.com/ (Η προσωπική ιστοσελίδα της M. Frank)

http://www.athensvoice.gr/363279_serifos (ΗM. Frank γράφει στην Athens voice για το σπίτι της στη Σέριφο)

http://www.documentonews.gr/article/miriam-frank-o-xerizwmos-afhse-bathy-shmadi-sth-zwh-moy (Συνέντευξη της M. Frank στην Έμυ Ντούρου)

http://www.iapopsi.gr/miriam-frank-oi-koiones-anages-enonoun-tous-laous/ (Συνέντευξη της M. Frank στην Καίτη Νικολοπούλου)

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/miriam-frank-reading-sharpened-my-understanding-of-human-behaviour-1.2075486 (Συνέντευξη της M. Frank στον Martin Doyle)

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/galleries/miriam-frank (Φωτογραφίες της M. Frank στην ιστοσελίδα του Radio New Zealand)

http://www.exiledwriters.co.uk/portfolio-items/miriam-frank/ (Παρουσίαση της M. Frank στο Exiled writers ink)

http://www.postmodern.gr/i-miriam-frank-kani-ton-kosmo-na-miazi-me-ligotero-monachiko-meros-synentefxi/ (Συνέντευξη της M. Frank στην Τίνα Πανώριου)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imTKIngtm1Y (Η M. Frank μιλάει για την εμπειρία της εξορίας από την αρχαιότητα έως σήμερα) 

Frank_Miriam 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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