With reference to the last text written Mirsini Zorba before the death of the prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakisexpresses condolences to her family,

The Prime Minister states in his message that “Mirsini Zorba has left a clear mark in public life, having been active in the field of culture for half a century.”

Post by Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Mirsini Zorba was an active personality, with half a century of cultural activity and a pronounced social life. In politics, she devotedly served her ideas. My sincere condolences to her family. pic.twitter.com/1sCx5iq3Dv

— Prime Minister GR (@PrimeministerGR) April 21, 2023

Mirsini Zorba passed away yesterday at the age of 74. The deceased was Minister of Culture in the SYRIZA-ANEL government (August 2018 – July 2019), MEP (2000-2004) and first director of the National Book Center (1995-1999).

Her death became known from a post on her Facebook page, which was reprinted by her partner Antonis Liakos.

“Last text of Mirsini

The word that fits this short horizon of mine is non-existence. It cannot be described because it is a place, a time. Last week, in a conversation with a doctor, I realized that we are stopping chemotherapy, it does not work, there is no alternative. Therefore, non-being is that which best expresses, most accurately expresses the future. Of course, all the time, throughout the year, through a contraction that is constantly growing, the time when his hourglass is empty, fear swells, in which at the beginning there were some cracks, some hopes, some maybe, and little by little fear occupies all existing time and is so absolute that you are no longer afraid, because there is nothing moving, flowing in it. There is only what you live by and that, on the one hand, is gloomy and ominous, a dystopia, on the other hand, there is real life, this is every day that you strive for, take care of. Food, reading, the weather outside, beautiful flowers, friends, communication, conversations, above all interests, the power of ideas that never ceases to exist and which manages to radiate out of time. So there are two sides, and life is one that wins every day, so this solid mass of fear stays there, frozen and hardened, and allows you to live the way you live. Further, looking up, non-existence is the most realistic… A joke, of course, no non-existence is realistic unless you see it from the side, and I see it very close now.”

He passed away some time ago.

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