Rea Galanaki
On Sunday 13 November at 6pm, Fougaro's Library and Kastaniotis Press invite you to the presentation of the novel Emmanuel and Catherine by Rea Galanaki.
Through a series of old monochrome photos and oral accounts, Rea Galanaki presents her parents, their start in life and moments from their daily life. The author takes us on a journey across her family memory, with historical references that touch all her readers; a novel much like an autobiography of herself and her people.
The back cover reads: "In these fairytales that aren't fairytales I question, invent, understand, hypothesize, mock and forgive, rather.After all, parents are just one of the many mirrors of our self-awareness—perhaps the hardest, but also a tender mirror".
Rea Galanaki
Born in Herakleion, Crete in 1947, Rea Galanaki studied History and Archaeology in Athens. She has published novels, short stories, poems and essays. A founding member of the Hellenic Authors' Society, her awards include two State Literary Awards (Novel Award, 1999; Short Story Award, 2005). She has also won the Kostras & Eleni Ourani Prose Award of the Academy of Athens (2003), the "Nikos Kazantzakis Award" of the City of Herakleion, Crete (1987) and the Reader's Choice Award of the National Book Centre of Greece (2006). Her recent novel Absolute Humiliation won the Balkanika Literary Award, while its French translation was nominated for the Prix Méditerranée Étranger (2017). Her book The life of Ismail Ferik Pasha was the first Greek novel to feature in the "UNESCO Collection of Representative Works" (1994), while Eleni, or Nobody was one of the top three nominations for the EU Aristeion Prize (1999). Her books have been translated into seventeen languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian, Dutch, Czech, Catalan, Bulgarian, Swedish, Lithuanian, Turkish, Arab, Chinese, Hebrew, Albanian.
