SPECIAL INTERVIEW A CONVERSATION EVA PETROPOULOU LIANOU

SPECIAL INTERVIEW A CONVERSATION EVA PETROPOULOU LIANOU

Q1.Parents play an invaluable role in shaping the future of their children, and support begins primarily within the family. How have your parents and family influenced your development as a poet?

A1: EVA Petropoulou Lianou
Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to speak about my life and children years.
As far I remember my self, my mother always was reading books and telling us stories and recite poems.
My mother was writing also when she was younger and my father was enjoying reading the biographies of authors and great personalities.
So i believe that the love for the books and reading and writing it comes definitely from both of my parents.

Q2.Through your works, what values and life lessons do you aim to convey to people?

A2:EVA Petropoulou Lianou
I like ethics and values
I don’t like injustice and lies
Through my poems and stories i present the importance of being honest and generous and kind
Every one has a difficult life and we need to sympathise and support each other.

Q3.Being a human first requires having a conscience. In your opinion, what are the main criteria and responsibilities of a poet or writer?

A3:EVA Petropoulou Lianou
As a poet and author, in believe we need to have integrity and respect to others authors.
Also we need to be transparent and write the truth.
An author must write about peace and harmony and write with his heart…. his personal experience about life so he can be an example for future generations.

Q4.What does “creative success” personally mean to you?

A4:EVA Petropoulou Lianou
Creative success
Means to me…to be translated in several languages and inspire people who i never met in person to read My poems

Q5.How has reading and studying the literature of different peoples changed your thinking and imaginative world?
A5:EVA Petropoulou Lianou
My project Poetry Unites people, for the past 15 years has promoted thousands poets from different countries with different cultures but what i learnt is that we all looking for same thing: a peaceful place to leave, to be happy and safe and to communicate with eachother and achieve our dreams
We are all thinking about the same and we are trying for the best.

Q6.How would you assess the relationship between the literary heritage of Greece and contemporary Greek literature?

A6: EVA Petropoulou Lianou
In modern greek literature, we can find a lot of different opinions and sometimes we find new rules for what literary means.After Ai has invaded our lives, children and young people request more adventures than before so we see those differences in how to present the literary project
so the youngest ages will accept to read a book.
We have of course very talented young people who write beautifully and i believe the Greek state must support those young minds so they’ll achieve their goals.