A Literary World An Interview with Shelley Dark Today’s guest is author Shelley Dark, a writer with whom I had the pleasure of meeting a few weeks ago when she presented her book, Winter in Hydra, at the Hellenic Museum in Melbourne. After reading her book, I could see that her writing reflected her […]
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A Literary World An Interview with Greek Australian Artist, Efrossini Chaniotis As readers of my blog know, apart from writing about literary works, I also write about art and history. Today’s guest belongs to the latter group. She is an artist who is well-known in Australia for her dramatic and thought-provoking work. Efrossini Chaniotis is […]
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A Literary World An Interview with Alyson Sheldrake Today’s guest on A Literary World is someone who will whet the appetite of those readers longing to “live the dream”; something that many of us yearn to do and yet never act on. Alyson Sheldrake is an author and painter living in the Algarve in Portugal. […]
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Blog 116 A Literary World: 10/07/2023 Martin Engelbrecht A Collection of Artists, Craftsmen, and Professions Clothed with Their Own Products and Tools Martin Engelbrecht (16 September 1684 – 18 January 1756,) was a German Baroque engraver and publisher who lived in Augsburg, Germany. Both he and his brother, Christian, were printmakers and engravers. Martin engraved […]
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A Literary World An Interview with John Martino Welcome to a Literary World. Today I am bringing you something a little different. All of us are aware of the Olympic Games. It has such a rich history. In antiquity, winners had victory poems, ‘Odes’, written in their honour by famous poets, and they were immortalized […]
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A Literary World The History of the MontCapel Hat Factory in France. In August, I had the pleasure of visiting the MontCapel Hat Factory in Montazels in the Haute-Vallée de l’Aude, a region that I discovered was one of the most important hat manufacturing areas in the world in its heyday. MontCapel opened its doors […]
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