Journalist Annie Charalambous will present her book Profiles – People Worth a Page on Wednesday, May 27, at Palia Ilektriki (3 Tempon Street, Nicosia) at 6.00pm.
The book brings together 38 interviews conducted between 2008 and 2018, during Charalambous’s time as political and diplomatic correspondent at The Cyprus Weekly. The interviewees range from politicians and entrepreneurs to artists, peace activists, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and bankers.
“The selection of these thirty-eight texts, written between 2008 and 2018, was a bittersweet yet enjoyable experience—just as any journey through memories tends to be,” says the author.
The interviewees are: Andrew Borowiec, Gerald Butt, Efthymios Bouloutas, Anna Caramondani, Nikos Christodoulides, Andrey Dashin, Marios Demetriades, Panicos Demetriades, Costas Demetriou, Alexander Downer, Deborah Duncan, Charles Ellinas, Harris Georgiades, Andreas Georgiou, Spyros Hadjinicolaou, Umit Inatchi, Temuri Ketsbaia, Matthew Kidd, John Koening, Pavlos Kontides, Loris Loizides, Stavros Malas, Odysseas Michaelides, Katerina Mina, Andreas Neocleous, Stanislav Osadchiy, Kudret Ozersay, Nicolas Papadopoulos, Anastasia Michele Papadopoulou, Theo Paphitis, Tina Pavlou, Christopher Pissarides, Stelios Platis, Jack Steven, Yiannis Toumazis, Harry Tzimitras, Monica Vassiliou, Lia Vissy.
Speakers at the launch will include Deputy Government Spokesman Yiannis Antoniou and lawyer Achilleas Demetriades.
Charalambous was born in Nicosia in 1963 and studied English Literature and Mass Communication in the United States. Her journalism career began in 1986 and included postings as press counsellor in Canberra and Washington DC.
