"For Dino Christianopoulos, being" against "is a statutory condition, it is the regime that defines the man of spirit. He did not care about the committee of literary awards if Christianopoulos would accept the big prize of letters, but only if the state should have honored him with it, and the committee considered that it should have honored him with this "he stressed during the awarding of the State Literary Awards 2011 at the Benaki Museum, Dimitris Kargiotis, member of the State Literary Awards committee. Although the Thessaloniki poet a few months ago had publicly "against" any award, he was symbolically awarded the Grand Prize of Letters for 2011.
"After extensive discussions about the work, the displacement and the personality of Dinos Christianopoulos, the committee wanted to recognize his diverse contribution to Greek letters by awarding him the top distinction. Dinos Christianopoulos is a figure that characterized an era and is undoubtedly a chapter of our letters "added D. Kargiotis.
The Minister of Culture and Tourism himself awarded the awards and noted that: "We have radically renewed the composition of the award committees, making them more pluralistic and staffing them with the right people. I want to point out something very important. It is not enough to put only good people, you must let them do their job ".
"Two years ago we talked for the first time about philanthropy and I am happy because today the NSRF is running the largest philanthropy program that has ever been done for Greek schools, so that children and teenagers can see the literary book completely differently. In addition, for the first time the state supported with scholarships writers who took their first steps and gave the stage to promote their work "noted Mr. Geroulanos shortly before awarding the Half-Time Writer Award to Michalis Gennaris for his book "Princes and murderers" and to Thodoris Rakopoulos for his book "Fayoum".
"Too many people like me, sometimes against their will, are forced to leave the country they want to offer. For me, the prize was a shrug of the shoulder from a stranger, as if to say "okay, go on". This is what I will try to do and I wish the best for all my generation that is facing the dilemma of working here uninsured with 400 euros or going abroad "said the 31-year-old author of" Fayum ", who has been living in London since 2004.
"I hope this daring translation experiment does not happen," said Dimitris Maronitis in the packed room, on the second floor of the Benaki Museum, for the translation of "Ilias of Homer", for which he was honored with the Award for Performance of the Ancient Greek Secretariat. New Greek.
The Novel Award was won by Thomas Korovinis for "Round of Death", the Short Story Award by Christos Oikonomou for "Something will happen, you will see", the Poetry Award by George Markopoulos for "Hidden Hunter".
The Critics' Essay Prize was awarded in half to Georgia Gotsi for her book "The Internationalization of Imagination" and to Venice Apostolidou for "Trauma and Memory".
George Theocharis won the Prize for Testimony-Biography-Chronicle-Travel Literature for "Distomo- June 10, 1944. The Holocaust". Aris Berlis was distinguished for the performance of a work of Foreign Literature in Greek for the writing work "Venice by Jean Morris".
The Prize for Performance of a Work of Greek Literature in a Foreign Language was awarded in half by Peter Jeffries and Carmen Villela for translations by Konstantinos Cavafy and Emmanuel Roidis, respectively.
"I would like to congratulate both those who were awarded and those who were not awarded for their spiritual contributions. I would also like to praise the difficult work that the members of the awards committee shouldered ", pointed out the director of the Benaki Museum, Angelos Delivorias.
"The book is the foundation of the culture and education of every people. Preserves and transmits knowledge. It is the duty of the state in every way to support the book, so that it finds a better place in the daily life of the Greeks. The institution completes 54 years this year "stressed the journalist Prokopis Doukas, who coordinated the evening.
Finally, the Children 's Literary Book Award was won by Christos Boulotis, the Adolescent - Youth Literary Book Award by Maria Papagianni, the Illustrated Children' s Book Award by Antonis Papatheodoulou and the Myrtia Vivio Ch.