Mikela CHartoulari

Mikela Chartoulari is a graduate of the Athens Law School and the French Press Institute, which was affiliated with Paris II University in Paris. In 1994, she participated in the Working Group of the Ministry of Culture under Thanos Mikroutsikos for the National Book Policy, led by Myrsini Zorba. She began her journalism career at the political magazine "Anti" and continued at "Ta Nea," where she worked for 29 years. Initially, she was a reporter in the culture sector (literature, cinema, archaeology, Ministry of Culture) and later spent six years as the head of the culture pages. She created and led for 12 years, until December 2012, "Vivliodromio," an influential book supplement for the newspaper "Ta Nea," which thrived under the direction of Pantelis Kapsis. Concurrently, she maintained an opinion column on literary life and new titles in Greek or foreign editions, while also conducting interviews with prominent figures in the intellectual sphere. Between 2006 and 2013, she collaborated with Antaios Chrysostomidis on the ERT 1 television series "The Antennas of Our Era," focusing on interviews with distinguished personalities from the international literary scene in their unique "workspaces." After the untimely death of Antaios Chrysostomidis in 2015, she edited a collective volume in his memory published by Agra, Ikaros, and Kastaniotis ("Antidoro for Antaios Chrysostomidis," 2016). Today, she works as a cultural editor at "Efimerida ton Syntakton" and as editor-in-chief at the online magazine "Chronos" (http://chronos.fairead.net/).