6/8/2023 0 Comments Menasse the capital![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Xenopoulou is unhappy to find herself in this division, which she considers a backwater: One of its main characters, Fenia Xenopoulou, is, like Christophidou, a Greek Cypriot woman working in a senior position at the EU’s department of culture in Brussels. Among the many fine works to have received support from this program is Menasse’s own bestselling novel, The Capital, winner of the German Book Prize. She is in charge, incidentally, of the EU’s program to support the work of literary translation. She is now back in the culture department, but this time at the top of the tree, with the grand title of director-general for education, youth, sport, and culture. Shortly after Menasse met her, she moved up the ladder and went on to be successively head of cabinet for two other commissioners. Christophidou, who is a Greek Cypriot, is a high flyer in the Brussels bureaucracy. She was then deputy head of cabinet of the commissioner in charge of the European Union’s department of culture in Brussels. About eight years ago, the Austrian novelist Robert Menasse managed, with great difficulty, to arrange a meeting with a woman named Themis Christophidou. ![]()
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