Albert Camus
Life
Early years
Albert Camus was born on 7 November 1913 in Dréan (then known as Mondovi) in French Algeria.[7] His mother was of Spanish descent and could only hear out of her left ear.[8] His father, Lucien, a poor… >>
Blog
Summer 2016
At 8 p.m. on the 17th of July at the CAFÉ — BOOKSTORE in the Old Village, we shall have the pleasure of welcoming the distinguished literary translator and academic DAVID CONNOLLY, who has done so much good work in… >>
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The harmony of beauty…
I remember as if it were yesterday the day I arrived for the fi rst time in Alonnisos, coming from Skopelos on a little excursion caïque.
It was in the 1980s, and I’d been really impressed by the peerless natural… >>
Pablo Neruda
Life and career
Neruda as a young man
Early years
Pablo Neruda was born on July 12, 1904, in Parral, Chile, a city in Linares Province in the Maule Region, some 350 km south of Santiago,[8] to José del Carmen… >>
Jean-Paul Sartre
Biography
Early life
Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris as the only child of Jean-Baptiste Sartre, an officer of the French Navy, and Anne-Marie Schweitzer.[9] His mother was of Alsatian origin and the first cousin of Nobel Prize laureate Albert… >>
Constantine P. Cavafy
Biography
Constantine P. Cavafy street sign in his city Alexandria, 24 January 2014. Photo By: Ahmed Hamed
Cavafy was born in 1863 in Alexandria, Egypt, to Greek parents, and was baptized into the Greek Orthodox Church. His father’s name was… >>
Odysseas Elytis
Biography
Descendant of the Alepoudelis, an old industrial family from Lesbos, Elytis was born in Heraklion on the island of Crete, on 2 November 1911. His family later moved to Athens, where the poet graduated from high school and later… >>
Nikos Kazantzakis
Biography
Nikos Kazantzakis
When Kazantzakis was born in 1883 in Heraklion, Crete had not yet joined the modern Greek state, (which had been established in 1832) and was still under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. From 1902 to 1906… >>
Milan Kundera
Biography
Kundera was born in 1929 at Purkyňova ulice, 6 (6 Purkyně Street) in Brno, Czechoslovakia, to a middle-class family. His father, Ludvík Kundera (1891–1971) was an important Czech musicologist and pianist who served as the head of the Janáček… >>