Poetry

Shock-fest "Titane" took home the top Palme d'Or prize at Cannes on July 17, revealed early at the closing ceremony in an embarrassing slip-up by jury president Spike Lee.

French director Julie Ducournau is only the second woman to scoop the prize, for a movie that was one of the wildest, sexiest and most violent ever shown at the Cannes film festival.

A Roman oil lamp depicting Trojan hero Aeneas carrying his father, inspired by Virgil's epic "The Aeneid," was among the many artifacts unearthed at the site of ancient Tenea which was discovered in 2018 during excavations at Chiliomodi in Corinthia. This season's dig at Tenea revealed a 500-square meter Roman baths complex.

A masterpiece by a prominent 20th-century Turkish poet became the second most widely-read poem in the world, according to a Berlin-based multi-lingual poetry platform.

Dacic pointed to the importance of Jovan Ducic in Serbian and Yugoslav diplomacy and the place that this giant occupies in Serbian literature.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Friday bestowed the Order of Honor on Harvard University Professor of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature Gregory Nagy, in a ceremony at the Presidential Mansion in Athens.

Two respected local talents, actress/singer Kariofyllia Karabeti and vocalist Manolis Mitsias, join forces at the Parnassos Literary Society for a series of concerts of emblematic Greek poetry that has been set to music, including poems by Sappho, Dionysis Solomos, Giorgos Seferis, Odysseas Elytis and Yiannis Ritsos. Performances start at 9.30 p.m. and admission costs 10-30 euros.

A local Turkish municipality has been working on translating Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi's Masnavi into several languages, aiming to make the 13th-century Sufi poet's masterwork available across the world.

Local and foreign tourists gathered in a Turkey’s central province to mark the 745th death anniversary of Mevlana Jalaluddin al-Rumi -- a 13th century Sufi mystic, poet and Islamic scholar.

There are no bidders for the house of distinguished Bulgarian poet Peyo Yavorov (1878-1914), put up for sale of October 15 at an initial price of BGN 1.6 million, BNT reports after checking with the Sofia District Court. The deadline for the submission of offers expired Thursday, and the bids were to be opened early today.

Written for the first anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution by the Soviet poet, satirist and intellectual Vladimir Mayakovsky, "Mystery-Bouffe" parodied the structure of medieval mystery plays in an anti-realist work for the masses that was both both revolutionary and futuristic.