The Reading Club of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki welcomes author Eleni Priovolou with her novel Deep is the Darkness Before Dawn, published by Kastaniotis Editions.

About the Author
Eleni Priovolou was born in Angelokastro, Mesolongi, where she lived until she was eighteen, and studied political science at Panteion University. She writes in search of the harmony and clarity of expression. Her inclination to portray the world through symbols led her to the realm of storytelling, which she has dedicated herself to for twenty-three years. She has authored twenty-one books for children and adolescents, seven novels for adults, one novella, and a book of short stories. Her novel The Way I Wanted to Live was awarded the National Book Center Readers' Award in 2010, and her book The Signal received the "For Big Kids" Award by "Diavazo" magazine in 2009.

About the Book
In her new novel, Priovolou encounters and reimagines a little-known historical figure in today’s world: Christodoulos Pamplekis, a scholar and notable teacher from Acarnania who served the principles of the Enlightenment with devotion. Pamplekis lived through the darkest days of the 18th century, just before the Greek Revolution, when Ottoman rule had plunged Greece into a perpetual medieval state. He studied at the Athonite Academy on Mount Athos under Eugenios Voulgaris and traveled extensively within the occupied country as well as to major centers of Hellenism, including Venice, Vienna, and Leipzig. His efforts focused on promoting scientific knowledge and individual freedom, bringing him into conflict with conservative circles within the Orthodox Church, resulting in his persecution. Pamplakis’s fate mirrors that of every pioneering spirit venturing into the unknown, holding a torch that dispels the darkness around him.