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Rea Galanaki or Rhea Galanaki (Greek: Ρέα Γαλανάκη) is a Greek author who was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1947. She studied history and archaeology at the University of Athens. She has published novels, short stories, essays and poetry books.

Her six novels (The life of Ismail Ferik Pasha, I shall sigh aw Louis, Eleni or Nobody, The Century of Labyrinths, Silent deep sea, Jouda’s Fires and Oedipus ’ Ashes) have established her as one of the leading Greek novelists. She has touched subjects as the double identities, the division between two countries, the impossibility of nostos, the meaning of nationality or femininity, of history itself; close to these, and during last years, she has been focused at subjects as the reappearance of racism, fascism, crisis and the contemporary social changes. She is widely known for her unique, thoughtful and sensitive way of writing. Her prose is recognized at her novels, based either on up to day, or on historical problems. She is also considered as the renovator of the so called historical novel.[1] Critical essays on Rhea Galanaki’s works have been published not only in Greek newspapers and literature magazines, but, among others, in the T.L.S.(2004, on the occasion of Olympic Games), in Le Monde[2] and Le Soir[3] (1992), the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Sudwest Presse, Frankfurter Rundschau (2002).[4]

Her novels have been translated in 15 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Czech, Bulgarian, Swedish, Lithuanian, Turkish, Arab, Chinese, Hebrew and Albanian.

Awards

1999 National Award for Literature
2004 National Academy Award
2005 National Award for Literature
2006 Reader's Choice Award of the National Book Center of Greece[5]

Selected bibliography


Books

(Yet Joyful, Athēna : "Olkos" Press)
(The Minerals, Athēna: Diogienēs Press)
(The cake, Agra Press)
(Where Does the Wolf Live, Agra Press)
& Kolias, H. D. (translator). (2000). I shall sign as Loui. Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press. ISBN 9780810117372. OCLC 44426984
(Yet Joyful. The Minerals. Agra Press)
(Homo-centric Stories. Agra Press)
(King or Soldier. Agra Press)
(Eleni, or, Nobody. Agra Press).
& Kaiē Tsitselē (translator). (1996). The life of Ismail Ferik Pasha: spina nel cuore. London: P. Owen. ISBN 9780720609653
(The Age of the Labyrinths. Kastaniotis Press)
(An Almost Blue Hand. Kastaniotis Press)
& Connolly, D (translator). (2003). Eleni, or, Nobody. Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press. ISBN 9780810118850. OCLC 51478002
(I shall sign as Loui. Agra Press)
(Deep. Silent Waters. Kastaniotis Press)
(I shall sign as Loui. Agra Press)
(Poems. Kastaniotis Press)
(Fires of Judas. Ashes of Oedipus. Kastaniotis Press)
(The Age of the Labyrinths. Kastaniotis Press)
(From Life to Literature. Kastaniotis Press)
(Absolute Humiliation. Kastaniotis Press)

Δυο γυναίκες, δυο θεές (Greek) Paperback – January 1, 2017

Διηγήματα (Greek) Hardcover – January 1, 2020 Paperback

Participation in collective works

[6]

(2013). Συνταγές μέσα από τη λογοτεχνία. Δημοσιογραφικός Οργανισμός Λαμπράκη. ISBN 9789605034368
(2012). 6 φωνές, 6 γυναίκες. Γενική Γραμματεία Ισότητας των Φύλων. ISBN 9789608334250
(2011). Jean Altamouras. Benaki Museum. ISBN 9789604760909
(2011) . Ο κύκλος του βιβλίου: Ο συγγραφέας, ο επιμελητής-τυπογράφος, ο εκδότης, ο κριτικός, ο αναγνώστης. Σχολή Μωραΐτη. Εταιρεία Σπουδών Νεοελληνικού Πολιτισμού και Γενικής Παιδείας [εισήγηση]. ISBN 9789602591314
(2007). Μετά το '89. Εκδόσεις Γαβριηλίδης. ISBN 9789603362692
(2007). Συγγραφικές εμμονές. Εκδόσεις Καστανιώτη. ISBN 9789600344684
(2007). Σύγχρονη ερωτική ποίηση. Εκδόσεις Καστανιώτη. ISBN 9789600342666
(2005). Ο δρόμος για την Ομόνοια. Εκδόσεις Καστανιώτη. ISBN 9600340374

(The Road to Omonia, Kastaniotis Press)

(2005). Πάτρα, το πρόσωπο της πόλης. Εκδόσεις Τοπίο. ISBN 9607646738

(Patra, the Face of the City, Topio Publications)

(1997). Ιστορική πραγματικότητα και νεοελληνική πεζογραφία 1945-1995. Σχολή Μωραΐτη. Εταιρεία Σπουδών Νεοελληνικού Πολιτισμού και Γενικής Παιδείας [εισήγηση]. ISBN 9602590920

References

Mahaira-Odoni, Eleni (2010). "Historical Poetics in Modern Greece: Reflections on Three Writers" (PDF). Center for European Studies Working Paper Series. Harvard University. 179.
"Ismaïl et ses fantômes". Le Monde. 27 March 1992. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
Grodent, Michel (25 March 1992). "Deux romancières de l'autre Grèce: Nostalgie crètoise et mémoire athénienne". Le Soir. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
"Rhea Galanaki: Das Leben des Ismail Ferik Pascha. Roman". perlentaucher.de Das kulturmagazin. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
"Βραβείο Αναγνωστών Ελληνικό Mυθιστόρημα 2006: Η Ρέα Γαλανάκη κέρδισε τις καρδιές των αναγνωστών". National Book Center of Greece. Retrieved 30 April 2015.

"Γαλανάκη, Ρέα: Συμμετοχή σε συλλογικά έργα". BiblioNet. National Book Center of Greece.

Further reading
Tatjana Aleksić (May 2009). "The Sacrificed Subject in Rhea Galanaki's Ismail Ferik Pasha". Journal of Modern Greek Studies. 27 (1).
Karen Van Dyck; Rea Galanakē; Tzenē Mastorakē; Maria Laïna (1998). The rehearsal of misunderstanding: three collections by contemporary Greek women poets. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 0-8195-6333-1.

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