New Series

Released
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Jim Potts -- Corfu Blues

208 pages
ISBN 91-975980-1-1
 
 

The book launch took place on May 31th at the Medelhavsmuseet
(The Museum of Mediterranean) in Stockholm

Reviews to date: Athens News, 21 July 2006 ("the book makes a positive contribution towards an understanding of modern Greece"); Kathimerini English Edition, 22 June 2006 ("He has internalised vast knowledge of Greek culture and here offers a compact but varied expression of it"); review of reading and book launch, Gotlands Tidningar newspaper, Gotland, 27 June 2006: "Jim Potts varvar anekdoter med högläsning, humor med filosofiska betraktelse, politik och kärlek... Jim Potts musikaliska brittiska låter nästan öronen glömma den språkliga betydelsen för att njuta.".

JIM POTTS, OBE, born Bristol, England, November 1944, was Director of the British Council in Sweden (2000-2004). He worked for the British Council for 35 years, from 1969-2004, and served in many different countries in many different roles (Cultural Attaché and Director in Prague and Stockholm, film-maker and TV producer in Ethiopia and Kenya, Regional Director in Northern Greece and cultural relations practitioner in Australia, where he served for seven years as British Council Director, based in Sydney). He was Head of East and Central Europe Department when he worked at Council Headquarters in London. He is the co-editor, with Judith Black, of the anthology “Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman” (Arcadia, London, 2003). He played a leading role in some ground-breaking cultural relations and public diplomacy campaigns such as the 1997 “New Images, Australia and Britain into the 21st Century”, “New Wales in New South Wales”, “Scotland in Sweden”, “British Design Season”,  “UK Country of Honour and British Literature Focus” at the 2004 Gothenburg Book Fair, as well as helping to initiate Montage (the global, web-based programme of curriculum projects for schoolchildren around the world) in Australia and the Literary Links exhibition and book (Allen and Unwin,1997), which celebrated the literary relationship between Australia and Britain. 
Jim studied English Literature at Oxford University (Wadham College) and Film-Making at Bristol University. In the course of his career he has made educational and documentary films (such as “The Cross, Art-Form of Ethiopia”), two independent CDs (“On the Memphis Road!” recorded at the Sun Studio Memphis in July 2004; and “Death Valley Blues”, not yet released).
Jim is also a cultural journalist and writes articles for various publications. Some of his poems have been published in Greek, Czech (“16 Poems”, Prague, 1989), Romanian and Swedish. Married to a Corfiot, Jim has two children and two grandchildren. He is a member of the Corfu Reading Society (Anagnostiki Etairia), the Anglo-Hellenic League and the Friends of Mt. Athos.
He now devotes himself to literary and cultural projects and is a founder member of the Living Arts Exchange: www.livingarts-exchange.com
or www.interpotts.com

Jim will take over from Richard Pine
as Academic Director of the Durrell School in Corfu, 
on 1.1.2007. See Durrell school website,
http://www.durrell-school-corfu.org/index.htm

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(If you ordering from outside of Sweden) 

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In Sweden:

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In USA

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