STEPHANOS STEPHANIDES* - EXPANDING THE SOUNDSCAPE OF SPACE: THE POETRY OF G.CHRISTODOULIDES IN AND OUT OF TRANSLATION
Speech at book launch of Giorgos Christodoulides Selected Poems 1996-2021, Roes, Nicosia, 22.06.2022 *Academic professor, poet, translator, critic, ethnographer, documentary film maker Ι am honoured and delighted at the invitation to speak at the launch of this book of poems by Giorgos Christodoulides in the English translation of Despina Pirketti. The book commemorates twenty-five years of Giorgos’ poetry (1996-2021) and my life has crossed with Despina and Giorgos for most of those years – the beginning of our friendship was when Despina was in my MA Seminar in Comparative Literature around the beginning of the 21st century. The beginning of our di alogue and friendship focused largely on questions and debates of what is World Literature? and What is Translation? At that time, Despina also shared with me one of Giorgos’ poetry book (I believe it was his second – then newly published). It was the beginning of a long-lasting and strong literary kinship among the three o...
