HFBC celebrates the European Author’s Day with events in the framework of Read For Real programme

As part of European Author’s Day, organized by the European programme Read for Real, Latvian author, illustrator, and animator Anete Melece will be in Greece on December 8 and 9, 2025. Anete Melece has received significant international recognition (Best Animation Award at the Swiss Film Awards, presence at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, nomination for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, etc.). She lives and works in Zurich.

On the occasion of the publication of her books The Kiosk and Stella’s Stolen Sleep, which are available in Greek from Ciel Publications, she will have the opportunity to visit schools, libraries, and bookstores in Attica. Through interaction, imaginative activities, and discussion, she will introduce children to her work while also giving both students and teachers opportunities for expression and creativity before, during, and after the meeting.

Programme of the events

Invited creator: Anete Melece
Publishing house: Ciel Publications, Zacharias Zoupas

Monday, December 8th, 2025

09:00-10:00
4th Primary School of Moschato

11:00-12:00
“Mauricio the cat” Bookshop
(meeting with schoolchildren)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2025

09:00-10:00
Μunicipal Library of Ilion
(meeting with schoolchildren)

12:30 – 14:00
Pierce – The American College of Greece

Anete Melece BIO

Anete Melece was born in Latvia in 1983. She studied visual communication at the Art Academy of Latvia and animation at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art. She works as an illustrator, writer and animation filmmaker currently based in Zürich, Switzerland.

Her breakthrough project, The Kiosk, was born in 2013 as a short film as part of her master’s thesis, and has won more than 20 awards at international festivals, including the Best Animation Award at the Swiss Film Awards in 2014.

In 2019, Melece adapted the story and made it an illustrated children’s book, which was included in the international dPICTUS list of the 100 best unpublished illustrated books of that year.

In addition to The Kiosk, Anete Melece has illustrated several other books for children, her own, such as Who Stole Stella’s Sleep?, as well as other authors’.

Her works have been presented at the Bologna International Children’s Book Fair; in 2021 she was nominated for the internationally recognized Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.

Her books in Greek are published by Ciel publications.

Read For Real

#ReadForReal is an international project carried out by a consortium of 7 organizations from 5 countries. The great European celebration of literature and creativity will take place every year from November 11 to December 12. Author cross-borders tours will connect writers with readers in 43 Creative Europe countries. So far, 27 countries have joined the preparations for the pan-European celebration.

HFBC is the national hub of the programme in Greece.

Contact details to all national coordinators are available for all interested parties on https://www.readforreal.com/find-your-hub/