Alexandros Kotzias - 100 years since his birth
18:30
Movie Viewing
Kyriakos Tofarides. Foreword by Avgi Lilli.


Tribute to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the writer Alexandros Kotzias
Screening of the award-winning film Jaguar in the presence of director Katerina Evangelakou
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the prose writer and critic Alexandros Kotzias (1926-1992), one of the greatest representatives of post-war literature in Greek literature, the 11th Nicosia Book Festival is organizing, in collaboration with the Cyprus Directors' Union, a screening of the award-winning film Jaguar (1996), based on Kotzias' novel of the same name and directed by Katerina Evangelakou. The event will be prefaced by Avgi Lilli, a researcher of Kotzias' work and a doctor of modern Greek philology, while the film will be followed by a Q&A by the director with the Cypriot director Kyriakos Tofarides. The event is held under the auspices of the Embassy of Greece in Nicosia.


