For its second iteration (2024), “Literary Spring-Nikos Markou” has decided to honour Scandinavian Literature, inviting writers, poets, and translators from Norway, Sweden, and Iceland to Skopelos. Greek readership has, to a certain extent, always been familiar with aspects of “classic” Scandinavian literature (Ibsen, Strindberg, Hamsun, or H.C. Andersen are perfectly familiar to the average reader), but awareness of new trends gradually fell into obscurity untilonly recently, in early C21, the great Nordic Noir wave crashed Greek shores, reviving the Greek reader’s interest in all aspects of Nordic literatures. Whether it’s literary prose or poetry, and with Norwegian Jon Fosse winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2023, Scandinavian languages and their literary offspring are being afforded the attention they deserve. In this spirit, with great joy and pride, the Municipality of Skopelos announces the 2nd Skopelos International Literature Festival “Literary Spring-Nikos Markou”, honoring Scandinavian literature with the participation of guest authors and translators from Norway, Sweden and Iceland. The festival will take place on April 27 and 28, 2024.
Official guests of the festival:
- Eirikur Ertn Norddal (Iceland):prose writer, poet
- Jan Henrik Swan (Sweden):prose writer, translator
- Thomas Mark Blatt (Norway):poet, prose writer
- Margarita Melberg (Sweden/Greece):translator
- Vicky Alyssandraki (Iceland/ Sweden/ Greece):translator
- Thodoris Rakopoulos (Norway/Greece):poet, translator
- Krystalli Glyniadaki (Norway/Greece):poet, translator
Organizational committee:
- Krystalli Glyniadaki
- Eleni Kosma
- Lizy Tsirimokou
- Stamatis Perissis
- Dimitra Markou
With the support of the Municipality of Skopelos and the Embassies of Norway and Sweden in Greece, Norwegian Literature Abroad (NORLA) and the Swedish Arts Council (Kulturrådet).