After sappho

Told in a series of vignettes, the author reimagines the lives of female artists and writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE Finalist for the Publishing Triangle's Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, TIME and The Guardian A New York Times Editors' Choice Selection “A work of stirring genius, a catalogue of intimacies and inventions, desires and dreams." —Jacob Brogan, Washington Post An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives…

In this assignment, I created the infographic about a famous people in ancient Greek civilization, Sappho. She was a very renowned female poet. I am quite satisfied with this work because...

Sappho is an ancient Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. One of the greatest lyrical poets of all time, the words ‘sapphic’ and ‘lesbian’ were coined after her, both of which are used as inclusive terms to describe queer women and nonbinary people. Our collection of her work, 'Ode to Aphrodite', stands as a quintessential example of her poetic prowess.

Selby Wynn Schwartz's debut, longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, is partly a love letter to Virginia Woolf and poet Sappho, partly a work of literary criticism and partly a speculative biography.

#ontheblog - Alana reviews Selby Wynn Schwartz's AFTER SAPPHO, an ambitious work of queer historical fiction.

Sappho of Lesbos (l. c. 620-570 BCE) was a lyric poet whose work was so popular in ancient Greece that she was honored in statuary, coinage, and pottery centuries after her death. Little remains of...