Panagiota Katsaveli

Author - 2023

They call her Giota and if you call her Panagiota she will pretend she doesn’t hear you. She is 21 and a student of English Language and Literature at AUTh. Her favorite movie is “Dead Poets Society” (yes, not cliché at all for a student of English). She loves traveling and the one trip she dreams about is undoubtedly Thailand, while she would love at some point to live in Denmark. In her free time, you will find her watching series and lying with a book in her arms, while there will always be a cup of coffee and a bar of chocolate next to her. Extremely shy, emotional and introverted, it takes patience to make her come out of her shell and open up to you.

The mirror society

07:00 am. The alarm goes off and after a lot of effort you decide it’s time to get up and drag yourself all the way to the bathroom in order to get ready for the tiring day ahead of you. So, as you’re standing in front of the mirror, you start observing yourself a bit more closely. Your big nose,…

And if I cry, so what?

"Don't cry", "the man is the bearer of the house", "you are a man, you are in charge". These are just some of the expressions that ring in the ears of a little boy as he grows up, coming from both male and female figures in his social environment. Although they do not come as a surprise - and we mu…

On Fridays we Love: Auguste Corteau

"What does it mean when a book unlocks doors in your soul that you keep tightly closed because pain lives unabated inside them?" the author writes. And the truth is that no one could better describe the emotional attachment that every reader feels having encountered a book by Auguste Corteau than…