The Book Publishers’ Association, as every year, this year too, will present a series of events in the framework of the Book Festival at the Pedion tou Areos. The programme from 11 to 12 September 2024 is structured as follows:

CENTRAL STAGE 11.09.2024 / time 18.00

The Book Publishers Association, in the framework of the 52nd Book Festival at the Pedion tou Areos, organizes an event dedicated to emerging writers in novels, short stories and novels.

The moderator and presenter of the event will be the writer – literary critic, Dr. Konstantinos Bouras.

CENTRAL STAGE  11.09.2024 / time 20.15

“The Contemporary Greek Poetic Creation”

As part of the 7th Patras World Poetry Festival, which coincides with the 52nd Patras Book Festival 2024, poets will read their poems accompanied by music by the internationally renowned jazz musician, award-winning saxophonist and poet, Dimitris Vassilakis.

The event will be presented on behalf of the Patras International Poetry Festival by Antonis D. Skiathas, poet and President of the Poetry Office of Greece, and Angeliki Pehlivani, poet.

Ms Angela Bratsou, translator, will introduce.

CENTRAL STAGE 12.09.2024 / time 19.00

“Does adolescence fit into the Library?”

“Do teenagers visit libraries? Do they read books? And if so, what books do they read? What is the role of librarians and library managers in designing programmes for adolescents?” The Network for Children’s Rights, with its Children’s Library “Myrsini Zorba”, invites professionals, authors and teenagers to a discussion to highlight the relationship that is created and fostered between young people and reading.

Moderated by: Kelly Fatourou (Librarian at Argyris – Lemos Schools).

Speakers: Fotini Avdelli (Librarian, Cultural instructor at the PLOES teenagers’ day centre), Garifallia Terizaki (Educator, Head of the Trifyllia branch of the Kalamata Public Central Library), Thanasis Kotsovos (Librarian, Head of the Cultural and Children’s Library Workshop “Myrsini Zorba”, Network for Children’s Rights), Katerina Frouzaki (Educator, Head of the Kifissia Children’s Library -SEARCH).

A teenage girl will be there to talk about her experience.

CENTRAL STAGE  12.09.2024 / time 20.30

Through the texts of James Demetrios Athanassiou, Spyros Vlahopoulos, Leonidas Kallivrettakis, Antonis Klapsis, Manolis Koumas, Lykourgos Kourkouvelas, Mogens Pelt, Efis Pentaliou, Tasos Sakellaropoulos, Konstantinos Stratos, Zisis Fotakis, Evanthis Hadjivassiliou, Dionysis Chourhoulis and Christos Christidis, highlight the aspects of the Navy Movement, which manifested itself in May 1973.

The volume approaches the aims it served, the intentions of the officers who participated -without being linked to the aspirations of political factions-, the impact of the repression of the movement in the West and its contribution to the restoration of the democratic constitution in the country. Fifty years later, the Hellenic Parliament Foundation honours with this publication the Navy Movement as a contribution of the armed forces to the overthrow of the dictatorship, an “effort that, if it had succeeded, would have avoided much suffering”, according to Evangelos Averoff.

Moderator: Evanthis Chatzivassiliou (Professor, NKUA / General Secretary, Hellenic Parliament Foundation).

Speakers: Konstantinos An. Tasoulas (President of the Parliament), Yannis Theodoropoulos (lawyer), Michalis Stathopoulos (Professor Emeritus, NKUA / Member of the Academy of Athens), Antonis Klapsis (Associate Professor, University of Peloponnese).