One of the best (and most attractively designed) magazines about Greece (Ancient, Byzantine and Modern) is The Anglo-Hellenic Review, edited by Paul Watkins, published twice a year (Spring and Autumn) by the Anglo-Hellenic League in London. The latest issue, no. 40, Autumn 2009, carries an excellent article on the writer Alexandros Papadiamandis ("The Boundless Garden, The Art of Alexandros Papadiamandis"), who is associated with the lovely island of Skiathos. The author of the article is Richard Pine, founder of the Durrell School of Corfu. It's both an essay and a book review, as Richard reviews the first volume of a new translation of Papadiamandis's wonderful short stories, published by Denise Harvey ("The Boundless Garden: Selected Short Stories volume 1").
Everyone hopes that funding will be found for the next two volumes. I would also love to see a translation of the stories and novels of Konstantinos Theotokis, the Corfiot writer.
Overseas subscriptions to the Anglo-Hellenic Review are only £7.50.
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good reminder to check we're re-subbed. watkins might owe you ;-)
ReplyDeletei think my mama has had something published there - about the garden, of course (!) - certainly she knows PW.
I think I have almost every issue of the magazine, and the back-issues are a very valuable source of information. It deserves to be more widely distributed. Happy to recommend it.
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