Monday, October 22, 2012
The Hellenic Authors Society will be honouring British historian and Hellenist, Mark Mazower, with the Dido Sotiriou Award, at a ceremony to be held at the Athens Concert Hall, on October 23. The distinguished historian has delved extensively into the history of modern Greece.
Mazower is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and director of the Center for World History at the University of Columbia.His book Thessaloniki, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 has been awarded with the Duff Cooper Prize.
His other "Greek books" include After the War was Over: Reconstructing the State, Family and the Law in Greece, 1943-1960, Inside Hitler’s Greece: the Experience of Occupation, 1941-1944, and Greece and the Inter-War Economic Crisis.
The award, established by the Hellenic Authors Society in memory of writer Dido Sotiriou, is presented to a foreign or Greek author whose writing highlights the interaction between people and cultures through cultural diversity.
