{"id":4830,"date":"2013-09-08T21:20:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T21:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.victoriahislop.com\/?p=4830"},"modified":"2016-09-15T17:42:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:42:40","slug":"greece-is-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/greece-is-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece is the Word!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.southbankcentre.co.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/production_main_image\/images\/lit-2013-hislop-hughs.jpg\" width=\"302\" height=\"302\" \/><strong>The Culture Behind the Crisis: What You Need to Know<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Victoria will be taking part in <strong><em>Greece Is The Word!<\/em>,<\/strong> a celebration of modern Greek culture and a cutting-edge, creative response to the Greek crisis. Others participating in this one-day event include historian Bettany Hughes, BBC correspondent Paul Mason and a pantheon of Greek stars for a lively day of debate and performance. <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Greek Fictions<\/h2>\n<p>Victoria, whose &#8216;Greek novels&#8217; <em>The Island<\/em> and <em>The Thread<\/em> have sold millions round the world, talks about modern Greek literature and the challenges facing writers in a country where publishing and bookselling have collapsed. She&#8217;s joined by top Greek novelists Ioanna Karystiani (<em>Back to Delphi<\/em>), Alexis Stamatis (<em>Bar Flaubert<\/em>), Dionysis Kapsalis, Vassilis Amanatidis and David Connolly for readings and chat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbankcentre.co.uk\/whatson\/greek-fictions-78104\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Book Tickets Now<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter: @litsouthbank #revolutions<\/p>\n<h2>Other events:<\/h2>\n<p>Enjoy poetry from inspirational performer Katerina Iliopoulou, comedy from brilliant stand-up Katerina Vrana, top analysis from journalist Maria Margaronis and lyrical literature from Ioanna Karystiani and Alexis Stamatis.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greece is the word is supported by the European Commission and by Arts Council England.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4827\" alt=\"Print\" src=\"\/\/www.victoriahislop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/lottery__black-1024x276.jpg\" width=\"607\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/lottery__black.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/lottery__black-250x67.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/lottery__black-500x135.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/lottery__black-768x207.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Culture Behind the Crisis: What You Need to Know Victoria will be taking part in Greece Is The Word!, a celebration of modern Greek culture and a cutting-edge, creative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,31,446],"tags":[303],"class_list":["post-4830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","category-greece","category-news","tag-en","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}