Eastern Mediterranean

You are invited to the book launch of Ivi Meleagrou’s first novel translated from Greek into English. The event will start at 7.30 p. m. with brief talks by Egly Hadjiharalambous Pantelakis, Stephanos Stephanides, Miltiades Hatzopoulos and Paul Sharrad. Excerpts will be read by Nora Clark-Liassis and Paul Stewart.

This will be followed at 8:30 p. m. with refreshments, book signing and a celebration of the author’s birthday.

‘Written in 1969, Eastern Mediterranean recounts the progressively tense political situation in Cyprus during independence, in Nicosia from 1960 to the beginning of intercommunal troubles at the end of 1963 through the eyes of a cast of characters … Meleagrou explores, through her protagonist Margarita, the profound literal and metaphorical engagement with this land both as physical presence and as a collective socio-political experience.’ - Vangelis Calotychos