Jeffrey Eugenides

When major international media shamed Greece about the financial crisis, the Greek-American novelist and short-story writer Jeffrey Eugenides aptly said, "the land of your grandparents is like your favorite football team. It has a special place in your heart. You do not want to see it get thrashed."

In "Die Selbstmord-Schwestern / The Virgin Suicides," Volksbuhne Berlin director Susanne Kennedy adapts the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides to tell the coming-of-age tale of five sisters with spirits crushed by strict, conservative parents, told from the point of view of five men who used to watch them from across the street when they were all teenagers.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides (l) talks to Greek writer Kallia Papadaki during an event at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center late Thursday. Referring to his most famous work during a press conference at Athens City Hall earlier, the Greek-American had said, "I would not have written 'Middlesex' today." [Intime News]

Pulitzer Prize winning Greek-American author Jeffrey Eugenides will be talking about his work and issues relating to identity during a two-stop visit to Greece. On Tuesday, September 25, he will be in Thessaloniki in the framework of events on the occasion of the US being the honored country at this year's international trade fair in the northern port city.

The Pulitzer Prize winning Greek-American author Jeffrey Eugenides will visit Athens on September 27 as part of the Athens 2018 World Book Capital celebrations organized by the Municipality of Athens with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the US Embassy in Athens.