The education ministry is currently planning for the smooth integration of Ukrainian students into the Cypriot education system for 2022-2023. The ministry’s service of state training institutes ...

At a mini-market on the Greek island of Ikaria, I study the labels on various items, trying to decipher their meaning. It’s been three days since I left my Greek husband back in New York and dove ...

Greek Lessons, by Han Kang – whose novel, The Vegetarian, won the International Booker in 2016 – is a luminous and aching meditation on the difficulties of language: how it speaks to mortality, ...

I don’t consider the Greek diaspora more exceptional than other ethnic communities, but there is one area where I think it excels — and that’s in maintaining its language.

“I didn’t take any photographs. The sights were recorded only in my eyes. The sounds, smells and tactile sensations that a camera cannot capture in any case were impressed on my ears, nose, face and ...

Grief, rather than love, is perhaps the engine of human experience. From the time we are born we are losing; whether we are conscious of it or not, we live fundamentally precarious existences, with ...

It is a quirk of fiction in translation that a writer’s novels often appear in English in a different order to their original publication. In Korean, Greek Lessons was the follow-up to The Vegetarian ...

During a poetry workshop last year, I was trying to write a clean poem, bereft of any blubber. The discussion steered along the lines of the Imagist movement: "Write in distilled images and let go of ...

Greek Lessons feels like a departure from Han Kang's other English-translated novels; tugging bit by bit at the heartstrings, readers are left... Few literary books this year are as highly anticipated ...

The north’s Greek language association (Yuder) chairman Arif Malek on Wednesday called for Greek language lessons to be introduced at high schools in the north. Speaking to newspaper Yeni ...