The founder of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki’s Reading Club, Kostas Arkoudeas, returns as our guest and presents his books The Lost Nobel – A True Story, Dangerous Writers, and Secret Ithaca, all published by Kastaniotis Editions.
About the Author
Kostas Arkoudeas was born in Athens and spent the summers of his childhood in Poliana, in the shadowy Mani, his family’s place of origin. Following the artistic inclination of his family, he began writing at a young age, while at the same time doing island and mainland jobs in order to collect experiences. He has published novels, novellas, short stories, a fairy tale, and an informal trilogy that provides a multifaceted view of the timeless constraints faced by writers and by free people in general. In 2019 he founded the Reading Club of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. He is a member of the Hellenic Authors’ Society and of the Committee for Writers in Prison of Pen Greece.
About the Books
The Lost Nobel: a reconstruction of Nikos Kazantzakis’s unsuccessful candidacy for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Through archival documents, the relationship between literature and political ideology is revealed.
Dangerous Writers: writers who unsettled the establishment with their works. From Cavafy to Nabokov, this essayistic work examines the power of the word in the face of authority.
Secret Ithaca: a philosophical and literary journey – five “pairs” of pioneering authors – into the very core of writing and identity.
