Award-winning and prolific writer Theodor Kallifatides features at the studio of Voice of Greece on Monday, November 6, at 12:00, on the Greek diaspora show “Faraway words“.
He is considered to be one of the most significant writers in Sweden, if not the most significant living writer.
He has written more than forty books which have been translated into twenty languages and has been awarded the Great Novel Prize (1981), the Honorary Prize of the City of Stockholm (1992) and the Greek State Literary Award for Best Testimony – Biography – Chronicle – Travel Writing (2013).
The occasion for this radio meeting is his recent award, by the ARGO-Brussels Hellenic Network, with the Culture and Arts Award granted him by the President of the Hellenic Republic Ms. Katerina Sakellaropoulou. The acclaimed writer, simple and accessible, talks with Natasa Vissarionos about his life in post-war Athens, about immigration, about life in his second home, Sweden, about love, women, violence, and war, about everything that inspires him and drives his pencil to paper.
