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The War Correspondents of the Spanish Civil War

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10 October – 16 November 2008 / The National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation (MIET), Thessaloniki

Co-organization: Pablo Iglesias Foundation / Kazantzaki Museum /The National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation (MIET) / Cultural Hispano-Hellenic Centre of Thessaloniki “F.G.Lorca”/ Cervantes Institute / Thessaloniki Museum of Photography
Under the auspices of the Consular Corps of Greece

The work of important correspondents of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), such as Nikos Kazantzakis, Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint- Exupéry, George Orwell and others, is presented for the first time in Greece in this exhibition, which encompasses 31 correspondences, as well as descriptions of places and people, as they were imprinted on the battle field and became known world wide.

The exhibition is realized as part of the 43th Dimitria of the Municipality of Thessaloniki.