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Canadian poet Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature

Canadian poet, translator and classicist Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced...
World

Greek author Alexis Stamatis dies aged 66

Alexis Stamatis, the Greek novelist, poet, playwright and screenwriter, died on Monday at the age of 66, following a...
Opinion

Long live the new idiocracy

I've noticed that the public conversation about artificial intelligence is still stuck on the same Promethean question: will it...
Events & Activities

The Cyprus Bloomsday festival returns with a focus on the female voices of Ulysses

The 5th Cyprus Bloomsday Festival returns to Nicosia on Tuesday, June 16, celebrating Irish writer James Joyce and his...
Events & Activities

David Connolly: “We believed we could change the world”

David Connolly, translator of Greece's greatest modern poets has devoted his life to bringing Greek literature to the world....
Books

Interviews with people…worth a page

Journalist Annie Charalambous will present her book Profiles – People Worth a Page on Wednesday, May 27, at Palia...
Opinion

The prize refusers

Most people want to be recognised. Artists, scientists, writers — the drive to create is inseparable, for most, from...
Opinion

The award battles

Don't shoot the (good) poets We know perfectly well, even if we don't admit it, that awards of every stripe—especially...
Opinion

Who gets to decide what counts as poetry?

Let's start with an admission: awards have never impressed us, least of all state ones. We've always had reservations...
Opinion

The hollow intelligentsia

Last week we witnessed the absurdity of the State Literary Awards. The chairman of the judging panel asked the...
Opinion

The award is a bloody farce

Apologies for the inelegant title—I tried to find something more classy, but failed. Another incident, or rather another nail in...
Local

Cyprus announces winners of state literary awards

Cyprus has announced the winners of its state literary awards for works published in 2024, with Eleni Kefala taking...
Op-eds

10 books by Cypriots that achieved international recognition

By Kyriakos Kyriakou. This op-ed was also published in Greek and Turkish on https://anotherlookforyou.blogspot.com/. Cyprus — a small island with an enormous...
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