Eurydice Street “remains the best account of today’s Greece, with sharp insights into nationalism, terrorism and the Orthodox church.” Books about Greece: holiday reading guide Recommended reading for visitors to Greece, compiled by Michael Kerr Sunbathing in Greece Photo: GETTY By Michael Kerr 8:00AM BST 17 Jul 2014 Newer offerings A single-volume primer? Try A Concise History of
Saturday 27 September 2014 10.30 am Blenheim Palace, The Marlborough Room For more information visit Festival website Writer and granddaughter of the ‘Mad Boy’, Robert Heber-Percy, Sofka Zinovieff tells of the scandalous lives and eccentricities of a cultured elite living in Faringdon House in Oxfordshire, a home she inherited from her grandfather and is moving to
A LITERARY EVENING at THE ATHENS CENTRE Featuring Sofka Zinovieff and Alicia Stallings On Wednesday, June 26, 7:00pm, at The Athens Centre, Archimidous 48, Pangrati, Mets. Sofka Zinovieff will be speaking about the process of moving from non-fiction to fiction in her writing about Greece, and read from both
The House on Paradise was published in Germany, June 2013 by dtv Premium Athen, Paradiesstraße dtv website www.dtv.de
Kaya Cultural Connections 2013 Louis de Bernières, Victoria Hislop, Jeremy Seal, Sofka Zinovieff 27th April-3rd May Kaya Connections, a multicultural international festival of literature, music, art, food and culture, brought hundreds of people to Kaya village, near Fethiye, during a six-day program, from April 27 to May 3, that has been hailed
Greece and Britain in Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 April 12th 2013 Selwyn College, Cambridge Sofka Zinovieff will be giving the paper: ‘Lazy Greeks’: The Crisis, Greek Political Identity and the Scars of the Civil War Programme now available. http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/news/Women.html
A SECOND RUN OF SOFKA – THE PLAY January 9th to February 3rd 2013 The Calder Bookshop and Theatre 51 The Cut, SE1 8LF A second run of the play about the princess who became a communist. Russian Princess, wife, mother, inmate, friend, secretary for Laurence Olivier and eventually a Communist, Sofka’s journey
AN EPIC TALE OF LOVE AND LOSS 03 MAY 2012 After two successful books, Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens and Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life, Sofka Zinovieff makes a triumphant foray into the realm of fiction with the riveting story of a young mother caught up in the tides of the Greek Civil
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