Miltiadis Salvarlis was born in Athens. He studied philology at the French Institute in Athens and law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Democritus in Thrace. From 1981 to 2012, he worked as a correspondent, editor and editor-in-chief at ERT radio and television, on the in.gr website, as well as in various publications. Among them are Journey, Pantheon, ELLE, Difono, HiTECH and National Geographic magazines. His latest book is titled Homeland is a Foreign Country and published by Metronomos.

“Black Water” by Michalis Makropoulos, which I’m already reading, and Antonis Georgiou’s “Album of Stories”.

The impoverishment of peace and life in defeated Germany after the Second World War, described in the “Berlin Trilogy” by F. Kerr.

Madame Bovary Flaubert. I got over it at a younger age.

From noon to noon, when it’s quiet around, in an armchair, with natural light pouring from the window.

In the past, I have been tempted to buy nonsensical celebrity biographies for the summer. I don’t feel guilty. Only that I wasted my time and money.

The writer’s ability to capture the universe of places, people and situations, skillfully transfer it to paper and involve it in his fairy tale.

I bookmarked a new book by Maros Dukas.

This is not another book about the catastrophe in Asia Minor. It mostly refers to “after”. How the urban Asia Minor took root in their new homeland, how they managed to acquire an economic surface, and how, finally, they merged into the highest social strata of Greece.

Rodina… covers the period of especially important events, from 1914 to 1985. Heroes are drawn into the whirlpool of History and face situations beyond their control. They are opposed by strength, will, education and a unique resourcefulness of spirit, a weapon that helps them to win their goals.