1. Influences and travels across time

‘That was the first and last pink shirt of my life, which lasted 25 years. I took it with me to Sweden so that I could remember the colour of humiliation of those years’.

The extract above is from the Greek edition of Theodor Kallifatide’s book ‘The past is not a dream’ (2012)

2. The underlying politics of injustices, violations and losses

‘That is how I understood that in the west we view each other as an invaded country. We do whatever we like with the face and the body of the people around us. We colonize their destinies. We rob them of their sufferings and exploit their stories’.

Mothers and Sons, 2007, Theodor Kallifatides