On Friday, December 21, at 7:00 p.m., 30 bookstores will simultaneously hold cultural events dedicated to writers whose works were hunted down, censored, banned and, worst of all, self-censored.  Title:  “Dangerous Words.”

In the Western world, and more so in the Arab one, there are lists of books that even today are prohibited.  Classic books that have influenced the shaping of today’s culture, as well as contemporary books that touch upon issues that narrow-minded and intolerant societies cannot face head on. 

But we are the books that stand behind us and they are worth protecting.  Because there are books that continue to be targeted.  Because there are words that still annoy.  Words that have been hunted down, words that have been massacred by the sword of political, religious and partisan censorship.

…..  The multiple and simultaneous presentation of 30 banned texts by 30 people from the world of culture, in 30 bookstores around Athens and Piraeus, on December 31^st, at 7:00 p.m., creates a polyphonic choir that sends a message about freedom of creative expression.  It is an evening of intervention, curated by Maria Koulouri, Nikos Kourmoulis, Giannis N. Mpaskozos and Christos Chrysopoulos. A collaboration between “Athens 2018 – World Book Capital” and the Municipal Theater of Piraeus.

Texts that will be narrated are as follow:

Bookstore – speakers – texts

1. Epikentro (Ag. Anargyroi) – Roula Pateraki, Boccaccio
2. Sporos (Kifisia) – Kostas Akrivos – N. Kazantzakis
3. Epi Lexei (downtown Athens) – Paola Revenioti, Maria Koulouri, El. Petropoulos
4. Lemoni (Thiseio) – Giannis Skourletis, N. Velmos
5. Booktalks (P. Faliron) – Electra Ellinikioti, Sophocles’ Antigone
6. Ianos (Syntagma Square) – Christos Chomenidis, E. Roidis
7. N. Chrysos Antique Bookstore (Exarcheia) – Savvas Michail, A. Embiricos
8. Libro (Kolonaki) - Ersi Sotiropoulou, Ersi Sotiropoulou
9. Evripidis (Kifisia) – Kostas Katsoularis, James Joyce
10. Evripidis (Chalandri) – Katerina Schina, Marquis de Sade
11. Ad Libitum (N. Smyrni) – Elena Maroutsou, D. H. Lawrence
12. Little tree (Acropolis)- Aggeliki Stellatou, Plato’s Symposium
13. Idionymo (Korydallos) – Κostas Kremmydas, M. Katsaros
14. Apeiros Chora (Vrilissia) – Dimitris Triantafyllidis, B. Pasternak
15. Lexiopoleio (Pagkrati) – Vaggelis Raptopoulos, M. Koumantareas
16. Paraskevopoulos (Piraeus) – Nikos Diamantis, I. Kambanellis
17. Parousia (Piraeus) – Dimitris Sotakis, K. Mourselas
18. Kaloudi (Piraeus) – Lena Divani, A. Akhmatova
19. Venieri (Piraeus) – N. Kourmoulis, G. Orwell
20. Protoporia (downtown Athens) – Katerina Matsa, Thycydides
21. Chartis (Vrilissia) – Christos Chrysopoulos, A. Huxley
22. Fotografos (downtown Athens) – Dimitris Poulikakos, D. Poulikakos
23. Pubic (Syntagma) – Titos Patrikios, The “Granin” Case
24. Public (Piraeus) – Aris Maragkopoulos, M. Katsaros Unpublished
25. Public (N. Smyrni) – Ikaros Mpampasakis, Vl. Nabokov
26. Aprovlepto (Ilioupolis) – Chrysa Spyropoulou, Giannis Mpaskozos, French erotic poetry
27. Eroica (Ag. Artemios) - Petros Markaris, P. Markaris
28. Pataki Bookstore (downtown Athens) – Petros Tatsopoulos, H. Miller
29. Free Thinking Zone (downtown Athens) - Maria Mitsora, S. Rushdie
30. Books plus (downtown Athens) -Τina Mandilara, Oresteiaka

For more information (in Greek), click here

On Friday, December 21, at 7:00 p.m., 30 bookstores will simultaneously hold cultural events dedicated to writers whose works were hunted down, censored, banned and, worst of all, self-censored.  Title:  “Dangerous Words.”

In the Western world, and more so in the Arab one, there are lists of books that even today are prohibited.  Classic books that have influenced the shaping of today’s culture, as well as contemporary books that touch upon issues that narrow-minded and intolerant societies cannot face head on. 

But we are the books that stand behind us and they are worth protecting.  Because there are books that continue to be targeted.  Because there are words that still annoy.  Words that have been hunted down, words that have been massacred by the sword of political, religious and partisan censorship.

…..  The multiple and simultaneous presentation of 30 banned texts by 30 people from the world of culture, in 30 bookstores around Athens and Piraeus, on December 31^st, at 7:00 p.m., creates a polyphonic choir that sends a message about freedom of creative expression.  It is an evening of intervention, curated by Maria Koulouri, Nikos Kourmoulis, Giannis N. Mpaskozos and Christos Chrysopoulos. A collaboration between “Athens 2018 – World Book Capital” and the Municipal Theater of Piraeus.

Texts that will be narrated are as follow:

Bookstore – speakers – texts

1. Epikentro (Ag. Anargyroi) – Roula Pateraki, Boccaccio
2. Sporos (Kifisia) – Kostas Akrivos – N. Kazantzakis
3. Epi Lexei (downtown Athens) – Paola Revenioti, Maria Koulouri, El. Petropoulos
4. Lemoni (Thiseio) – Giannis Skourletis, N. Velmos
5. Booktalks (P. Faliron) – Electra Ellinikioti, Sophocles’ Antigone
6. Ianos (Syntagma Square) – Christos Chomenidis, E. Roidis
7. N. Chrysos Antique Bookstore (Exarcheia) – Savvas Michail, A. Embiricos
8. Libro (Kolonaki) - Ersi Sotiropoulou, Ersi Sotiropoulou
9. Evripidis (Kifisia) – Kostas Katsoularis, James Joyce
10. Evripidis (Chalandri) – Katerina Schina, Marquis de Sade
11. Ad Libitum (N. Smyrni) – Elena Maroutsou, D. H. Lawrence
12. Little tree (Acropolis)- Aggeliki Stellatou, Plato’s Symposium
13. Idionymo (Korydallos) – Κostas Kremmydas, M. Katsaros
14. Apeiros Chora (Vrilissia) – Dimitris Triantafyllidis, B. Pasternak
15. Lexiopoleio (Pagkrati) – Vaggelis Raptopoulos, M. Koumantareas
16. Paraskevopoulos (Piraeus) – Nikos Diamantis, I. Kambanellis
17. Parousia (Piraeus) – Dimitris Sotakis, K. Mourselas
18. Kaloudi (Piraeus) – Lena Divani, A. Akhmatova
19. Venieri (Piraeus) – N. Kourmoulis, G. Orwell
20. Protoporia (downtown Athens) – Katerina Matsa, Thycydides
21. Chartis (Vrilissia) – Christos Chrysopoulos, A. Huxley
22. Fotografos (downtown Athens) – Dimitris Poulikakos, D. Poulikakos
23. Pubic (Syntagma) – Titos Patrikios, The “Granin” Case
24. Public (Piraeus) – Aris Maragkopoulos, M. Katsaros Unpublished
25. Public (N. Smyrni) – Ikaros Mpampasakis, Vl. Nabokov
26. Aprovlepto (Ilioupolis) – Chrysa Spyropoulou, Giannis Mpaskozos, French erotic poetry
27. Eroica (Ag. Artemios) - Petros Markaris, P. Markaris
28. Pataki Bookstore (downtown Athens) – Petros Tatsopoulos, H. Miller
29. Free Thinking Zone (downtown Athens) - Maria Mitsora, S. Rushdie
30. Books plus (downtown Athens) -Τina Mandilara, Oresteiaka

For more information (in Greek), click here

On Friday, December 21, at 7:00 p.m., 30 bookstores will simultaneously hold cultural events dedicated to writers whose works were hunted down, censored, banned and, worst of all, self-censored.  Title:  “Dangerous Words.”

In the Western world, and more so in the Arab one, there are lists of books that even today are prohibited.  Classic books that have influenced the shaping of today’s culture, as well as contemporary books that touch upon issues that narrow-minded and intolerant societies cannot face head on. 

But we are the books that stand behind us and they are worth protecting.  Because there are books that continue to be targeted.  Because there are words that still annoy.  Words that have been hunted down, words that have been massacred by the sword of political, religious and partisan censorship.

…..  The multiple and simultaneous presentation of 30 banned texts by 30 people from the world of culture, in 30 bookstores around Athens and Piraeus, on December 31^st, at 7:00 p.m., creates a polyphonic choir that sends a message about freedom of creative expression.  It is an evening of intervention, curated by Maria Koulouri, Nikos Kourmoulis, Giannis N. Mpaskozos and Christos Chrysopoulos. A collaboration between “Athens 2018 – World Book Capital” and the Municipal Theater of Piraeus.

Texts that will be narrated are as follow:

Bookstore – speakers – texts

1. Epikentro (Ag. Anargyroi) – Roula Pateraki, Boccaccio
2. Sporos (Kifisia) – Kostas Akrivos – N. Kazantzakis
3. Epi Lexei (downtown Athens) – Paola Revenioti, Maria Koulouri, El. Petropoulos
4. Lemoni (Thiseio) – Giannis Skourletis, N. Velmos
5. Booktalks (P. Faliron) – Electra Ellinikioti, Sophocles’ Antigone
6. Ianos (Syntagma Square) – Christos Chomenidis, E. Roidis
7. N. Chrysos Antique Bookstore (Exarcheia) – Savvas Michail, A. Embiricos
8. Libro (Kolonaki) - Ersi Sotiropoulou, Ersi Sotiropoulou
9. Evripidis (Kifisia) – Kostas Katsoularis, James Joyce
10. Evripidis (Chalandri) – Katerina Schina, Marquis de Sade
11. Ad Libitum (N. Smyrni) – Elena Maroutsou, D. H. Lawrence
12. Little tree (Acropolis)- Aggeliki Stellatou, Plato’s Symposium
13. Idionymo (Korydallos) – Κostas Kremmydas, M. Katsaros
14. Apeiros Chora (Vrilissia) – Dimitris Triantafyllidis, B. Pasternak
15. Lexiopoleio (Pagkrati) – Vaggelis Raptopoulos, M. Koumantareas
16. Paraskevopoulos (Piraeus) – Nikos Diamantis, I. Kambanellis
17. Parousia (Piraeus) – Dimitris Sotakis, K. Mourselas
18. Kaloudi (Piraeus) – Lena Divani, A. Akhmatova
19. Venieri (Piraeus) – N. Kourmoulis, G. Orwell
20. Protoporia (downtown Athens) – Katerina Matsa, Thycydides
21. Chartis (Vrilissia) – Christos Chrysopoulos, A. Huxley
22. Fotografos (downtown Athens) – Dimitris Poulikakos, D. Poulikakos
23. Pubic (Syntagma) – Titos Patrikios, The “Granin” Case
24. Public (Piraeus) – Aris Maragkopoulos, M. Katsaros Unpublished
25. Public (N. Smyrni) – Ikaros Mpampasakis, Vl. Nabokov
26. Aprovlepto (Ilioupolis) – Chrysa Spyropoulou, Giannis Mpaskozos, French erotic poetry
27. Eroica (Ag. Artemios) - Petros Markaris, P. Markaris
28. Pataki Bookstore (downtown Athens) – Petros Tatsopoulos, H. Miller
29. Free Thinking Zone (downtown Athens) - Maria Mitsora, S. Rushdie
30. Books plus (downtown Athens) -Τina Mandilara, Oresteiaka

For more information (in Greek), click here