{"id":4421,"date":"2025-10-22T12:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/?post_type=team&#038;p=4421"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:13:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:13:21","slug":"mikela-chartoulari","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/authors\/mikela-chartoulari\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikela Chartoulari"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4421\" class=\"elementor elementor-4421 elementor-4404\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-107a786 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"107a786\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b3bd74a\" data-id=\"b3bd74a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fd61fef elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fd61fef\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p align=\"justify\"><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Mikela Chartoulari<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\"> was born in 1958 and has worked as a journalist and book critic for major Greek daily newspapers. During the years 2000-2012, she was the editor-in-chief of the highly influential book supplement \u201cVivliodromio\u201d, issued by the popular daily <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>TA NEA<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\">. Having studied Law in Athens (Athens University) and Media in Paris (Institut de Presse et des Sciences de l\u2019 Information, PARIS II), she entered the field of cultural criticism in 1984 writing for the cultural and political magazine <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Anti<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\">. She also collaborated with the public TV channel (2006-2013) for a series of one-hour documentary portraits called <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>The Antennas of our Times<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\">. Together with the late translator, columnist and publisher Anteos Chrysostomides, they interviewed some of the most prominent authors in the world, from John Le Carr\u00e9 and Hilary Mantel to Orhan Pamuk and Alaa Al Aswany, and from Umberto Eco and Javier Marias to Alan Hollinghurst and John Banville. Mikela views comparative literature as the key to approaching all the major issues of our time, but she is also deeply interested in modern history, social-political-ideological movements, cultural politics and the battle of ideas, which has reinforced her belief that it is finally time for Greece to take active part in the international intellectual debate<\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span> by organizing its own major literary festival<\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\">. Some of her essays on the Greek literary and cultural scene that have been published in English and Swiss books and magazines include: \u201cThe Representation of the Other in Recent Greek Fiction\u201d (<\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Critical Times, Critical Thoughts<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\">, Cambridge University Press, London 2016), \u201cAlmost Living. Five Tableaux Vivants\u201d (<\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Culturescapes<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\">, Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2017), \u201cBrief aus Athen: Stimmungslagen vor Ort\u201d about Documenta14 in Athens (<\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Kunstbulletin<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span lang=\"en-US\">, 3\/2017, Zurich).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikela Chartoulari was born in 1958 and has worked as a journalist and book critic for major Greek daily newspapers. During the years 2000-2012, she was the editor-in-chief of the highly influential book supplement \u201cVivliodromio\u201d, issued by the popular daily TA NEA. 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