Isabel Allende receives the "Hans Christian Andersen" award

To the Chilean writer, Isabel Allende to be awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Prize for Literature, as announced by members of the municipal council of the city of Odense, Denmark.

"I am happy and proud that an important international writer will visit Odense in September once again", said Steen Moller, member of the municipal council.
"As the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen, it is exciting to welcome a writer whose magical universe shares many characteristics with Andersen's genre", he added himself.

Andersen wrote some of the most famous children's fairy tales - The Ugly Grandpa, The little mermaid, The Emperor's New Clothes– from 1805 as the 1875.
The prize, which comes with a cash prize 500.000 crowns (90.000 dollars, about 67.000 euro) it is the most important in Denmark and is usually awarded to authors whose work is similar to Andersen's texts.
Allende, 69 years, has written the book The House of the Spirits, a film adaptation of which was directed by Dane Billy August.

Η Δανή πριγκίπισσα Μέρι θα απονείμει το βραβείο στην τελετή της 30ής Σεπτεμβρίου και όπως και στις προηγούμενες τελετές θα παρουσιαστεί ζωντανά ένα τραγούδι το οποίο έχει συντεθεί ειδικά για την Αλιέντε, σύμφωνα με τους διοργανωτές.
Η Χιλιανή συγγραφέας θα προσκληθεί επίσης σε μια περιήγηση στο Μουσείο Χανς Κρίστιαν Αντερσεν και σε μια εκδήλωση στη βιβλιοθήκη της πόλης.
The 2010 το βραβείο είχε απονεμηθεί στην Τζόαν Ρόουλινγκ, τη βρετανή δημιουργό του Χάρι Πότερ.

Source : ethnos.gr

Betty Magira : Pregnancy weight and love that "changes form"

About her pregnancy weight and about her relationship with her husband, Dimitris Mazi, he spoke to the "Morning Study" camera Betty Magira.

After the birth of her daughter, the well-known performer lost her pregnancy weight, without much difficulty: "Now I'm thinner than before (SS.: the little girl was born in January 2010)he confessed, while he explained that when he prepares for a show he does not follow a specific diet, he just eats - out of things, due to stress and lack of time- less: "I am not entering into this process, because I lose from stress anyway, the run and the rehearsals. I always pay attention, but I won't eat lettuce and carrots for the last month. No!he explained.

As for whether she still remains in love with her husband, after ten whole years of relationship: "Surely love evolves. It changes shape. That is, I don't think there is a couple that after some years you feel that heartbeat that you felt when you met a nice chick, a nice man. That doesn't exist, of course. Nevertheless, love becomes so strong, the more intense and deep the camaraderie. Lying with a person in the same bed, binds you to him. (…) Certainly Dimitris's character counts. I also like Dimitris as a chick. I see him at home and stare at him, how I'd miss him if he wasn't my husband. I can't get enough of him, it's the truth. I'm fooling around with him like you're fooling around with a nice guy with a nice body," she admitted.

Source : yupi.gr

Dimitris Skarmoutsos : The ex-partner who marked him!

In an interview with the magazine «Inked», The Dimitris Skarmoutsos talk about 'Master Chef 2', not hiding his annoyance at the lack of official information from Mega to the contributors of the game, while he also referred to his ex-partner who -literally- marked him, since he has a tattoo dedicated to her on his right hand.

The famous chef admitted that the people at Mega were initially wary about working with him on "Master Chef": "Since, what do i know, They didn't want me as a presenter. They took me because someone from the production insisted. Let alone that they had run out of options and had no one else for the position. I can tell you that at first I didn't want to do something like that either," he said.

As for 'Master Chef 2': "We haven't been told anything about this year's "Master Chef".. The, what do you know, know. The channels are in complete confusion. There is a lot to do with the second cycle. The most appropriate thing would be for them to call us and tell us what will happen, but that never happened. So I have no idea where the story will go. After all, the finals haven't been filmed yet," he said.

End, about the tattoos he has done all over his body: "My relationship with tattoos began in the early 80s. (…) At that time, anyone who walked around with a tattoo ate the stamp of the marginal tax and everyone thought that he had gone to prison" he commented, while revealing: "On my left arm I have a tattoo dedicated to my son. It is the sign of love in Egyptian and the name of Dimitris Junior. On the fingers of the right hand is the tattoo I did for a girlfriend of mine. It is about Anna, with whom we broke up three years ago. It is the letter A normally but also upside down, while there is a sun and a moon. It means “Good Anna, Anna bad, Anna day- night”! Big love Anna!».

Source : yupi.gr