As announced by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, which awarded the National Literature Awards 2017, the Grand Literary Prize for Lifetime Achievement was bestowed upon Dionysis Kapsalis.
On Monday, January 7, Minister of Culture, Myrsini Zormpa, will meet with the award-winning writers to discuss the course of Greek literature, as well as broader issues related to books. The meeting will be attended by the translators who were honored with the State Literary Translation Awards, the shortlist of authors who were very close to winning, representatives of the publishing houses of the award-winning writers, as well as members of the Committee for National Literary and Translation Awards.
The Prizes were awarded as follows:
The Special Award for Promotion of Dialogue on Socially Sensitive Issues was granted by majority vote to Aggeliki Sidira for her work, “Silver Alert” (Kedros Publicatons).
Additionally, the Committee unanimously decided to award a commendation to the literary journals “Panos Street” and “[Frmk].” The Committee was comprised of professors: Mariliza Mitsiou (President), Professor at Munich University, Institute for Byzantine Studies, Byzantine Art History and Modern Greek Studies; Mary Leontsini (Vice President), Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, and; Michalis Chrysanthopoulos, Professor of General and Comparative Literature at the School of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Also participating in the Committee were: authors Claire Mitsotaki, Kallia Papadaki, Pavlina Papouli, as well as critics Elena Maroutsou, Anna Afentoulidou and Kostas Karavidas.
Source: Κathimerini