British literature

A 83-year-old man has been living on an isolated island on the Lake Keban Dam in Turkey's east, with the locals calling the lonely elderly "Robinson," likening him to "Robinson Cruseo," the fictional novel character by 18th century English author Daniel Defoe.

The Benaki Museum has announced the re-opening of the home where Irish writer Patrick Leigh Fermor and his wife, the English photographer Joan, spent some of the best years of their lives, in Kardamyli in the Peloponnese's Mani region.

A portrait of Charles Dickens that had been lost for 174 years has been found in a box of trinkets in South Africa, reported standard.co.uk

The portrait shows the famous Victorian writer at the age of 31, and was painted by artist and social campaigner Margaret Gillies in 1843, during the same weeks that Dickens was writing his festive classic A Christmas Carol.

The Athens Open-Air Film Festival comes to an end on Wednesday, August 29, with a screening of the classic and chilling 1963 horror "Lord of the Flies," based on the 1954 novel by Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding. The screening will take place in the garden of the Numismatic Museum, starting at 9 p.m., and is free of charge.

Numismatic Museum, 12 Panepistimiou

A Turkish televangelist, who introduces himself as the savior of humanity, has stirred public outcry by abusing a kangaroo. 

Culture Minister Lydia Koniordou has criticized a decision by the Central Archaeological Council (KAS), the main guardian of Greece's cultural heritage, to turn down a request by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to shoot at the Temple of Poseidon on Cape Sounio next month.

This year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is the British author of Japanese origin, Kazuo Ishiguro, reports Bgnes. 

The award is given for his novels which, "with great emotional power reveal the abyss under our illusory sense of connection with the world," the Swedish Academy reported.

The Honorary Consul of Greece in Lugano, Switzerland Alexandros Papadatos-Beis has donated pharmaceuticals valued at 7,000 euros to the general hospital of the island of Zakynthos.

The hospital's director, Despina Tsaridou, thanked the consul in a letter, expressing hope his action will serve as a precedent.

Thousands of British will have the opportunity to watch and admire the beautiful landscape of the Greek island of Corfu on TV.

A new six part period drama will be filmed on Corfu island by ITV. The series is called “The Durrells” and is based on The Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell who lived on the island from 1935-1939.

William Shakespeare may have had an illegitimate son who featured in one of the his sonnets, according to a historical study.

Sonnet 126, which is addressed to ‘my lovely boy’, is believed to have been written for Sir William Davenant , who later became Poet Laureate and who some believe he was Shakespeare’s son.