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Maria Lampadaridou Pothou

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"The Wooden Wall" in the European Union, July 2020

Εγκαίνια Αίθουσας των Μεγάλων Ευεργετών Λήμνου, Ιούλιος 2020

Αγία Σοφιά, εξελίξεις & νέα, καλοκαίρι 2020

Hear me...  ■  The poet writes history  ■  Athens, beloved city  ■  For my little Marina  ■  Gallipoli or ANZAC 100 years later: "When injustice becomes the history of the people"

Mystic Passage, review by Bengt Holmqvist, in Stockholm  ■  Πρόλογος του Jacques Lacarrière για την ποιητική συλλογή “Μυστικό Πέρασμα”   ■  Preface of the poetry “Mystic Passage” in Swedish  ■  Mystic Passage, review by professor Apostolos Athanasakis  ■  Préface de Jacques Lacarrière en français pour la poésie Passage Mystique  ■  Mystic Passage, review by Bengt Holmqvist, in Stockholm 

Poetry has always been for me the raw material of my books  ■  

Αποσπάσματα

The Wooden Wall, summary In English  ■  The Wooden Wall excerpt: Chapter 14, The Naval Battle Of Salamis  ■  The Wooden Wall excerpt: Chapter 15, The naval battle  ■ The Wooden Wall excerpt: Chapter 18, Iridescent fragments  ■ The Wooden Wall excerpt: Between the End and Eternity, Seven years later  ■ The Wooden Wall excerpt: On the road to the Nekyomanteion, The last chapter

Reviews

“The Wooden Wall”  review for the novel   ■  “The wooden wall”, review for the novel  ■  “The wooden wall” review for the novel  ■  “The wooden wall” review for the novel, at the newspaper Vradini  ■  “The wooden wall” review for the novel at the newspaper To Vima

Αποσπάσματα

“The last Emperor of Byzantium” Chapter One: To Lemnos, the Isle Beloved…   ■   The last Emperor of Byzantium, the last chapter “My son, my Konstantine”

Thoughts

 The Last Emperor of Byzantium Or: “The City has been taken, been taken”  ■  “The last Εmperor of Byzantium” thoughts and cover text  ■  The last Emperor of Byzantium, Author’s note for the novel  ■  The City has been taken, review by Dimitris Stamelos The heroic and tragic event of the Fall   ■  “The City has been taken”, about the novel

Reviews

The City has been taken, review by Dimitris Stamelos The heroic and tragic event of the Fall  ■  The Fall of Constantinople, review for the novel  ■  The City has been taken, review for the novel

Answer to Ismail Kadare about the church of Hagia Sophia  ■  Lemnos, island of the gods

I write, because this is the only way that I can exist  ■  From soul to the soul

"I made this, I have forgotten And remember" interview with Eleni Gkika  ■  

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