The winner of the Anglo-Hellenic League 2026 Runciman Award will be announced and a lecture, “Being in Two Places at Once”, by author and screen writer Kallia Papadaki will follow.
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More about the lecture:
From stories conjured out of thin air – the genesis of the Greek novel about diaspora, Dendrites, set in crisis-ridden 1980s Camden, New Jersey, among a community of immigrants trying and failing to realize the American dream. A reflection on endings and beginnings in life, books, and films, and on their hidden symmetry. A journey from the paradox of Schrödinger’s cat to the mischievous art of writing, to the formation of an ever-shifting identity and the heartrending need for belonging. And, at last, making the impossible possible: being in two places at once – the inner conflict that fuels creativity.
And more about Kallia Papadaki:
Kallia Papadaki is a writer.
Her novel Dendrites, published by Polis Editions, was awarded the European Union Prize for Literature in 2017. Her short story collection, The Back Lot Sound, received the Debut Author Award from Diavazo magazine in 2010.
Her screenplay for Penny Panayotopoulou’s film September won the Balkan Fund Development Award in 2010 and received a Nipkow Programme fellowship in Berlin in 2011. The film premiered in the Official Competition section of the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Her screenplay for the film Wishbone, also directed by Panayotopoulou, was nominated for the IRIS Screenplay Award by the Hellenic Film Academy. The film premiered in the World Competition of the 36th Galway Film Fleadh and won the Audience Award at the 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Her play Roots of Cotton, directed by Efi Theodorou, was staged at Little Epidaurus in July 2022 and published by Melani Editions.
She teaches screenwriting at the Stavrakos Film School and serves as a script consultant for the Pop Up Film Residency, the Mediterranean Film Institute, and ERT’s Microfilm program.