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Dear Readers,

The “Literature.gr Phrase of the Year Award” was established in December 2015 by Literature.gr, the Greek online literary magazine.

Since literature has always played a prominent role in the field of culture, Literature.gr has established this award, aiming to find ways for the promotion of literature and the engagement of the readers to the modern thinking of Greek and international authors. Taking for granted that within every literary book there is, most of the times, a phrase that can be read autonomously and can still impress the reader, mobilizing new spiritual forces, the purpose of this award is the promotion of those literary quotes which continue to promote this process beyond the reading experience.

Prizes are awarded to the Greek and International authors or poets, whose autonomous phrases reflect this spirit by promoting quality reading experience.

For 2017: 

• Literature.gr Greek Phrase of the Year Prize 2017 had been awarded to Mrs. Ersi Sotiropoulos for her book: ”Are You Up to It?”, by Patakis Publishers, 2017. Distinguished phrase: ‘Art can exist only with a sense of urgency, the rest is just philological babble.’  

• Literature.gr Foreign Phrase of the Year Prize 2017 had been awarded to Mr. Greg Jackson  for his book: ”Prodigals: Stories, published in USA, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in Greece by Editions Antipodes 2017, translated into Greek by: Panagiotis Kechagias. Distinguished phrase:   ’People are bullets, fired.‘

The award ceremony will take place within 2018. 

On behalf of Literature.gr

Dina Sarakinou 

”There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live more vividly than many men and women. There are phrases from literary works that have a positively human personality. There are passages from my own writing that chill me with fright, so distinctly do I feel them as people, so sharply outlined do they appear against the walls of my room, at night, in shadows… I’ve written sentences whose sound, read out loud or silently (impossible to hide their sound), can only be of something that acquired absolute exteriority and a full-fledged soul. ”  

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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