The journey of a spiritual-cultural content show continues on ERT. It is Monogramma which is now entering its 31st year of presence in our television landscape.

Professor, philologist, author, and translator

"Monogramma" is dedicated to a remarkable Swedish friend of Greece, a lover of the Greek spirit and language. Professor, philologist, author, and translator of works by Greek poets, writers, and authors into Swedish, Ingemar Rhedin, is a highly characteristic figure of an intellectual who conveyed and disseminated Greek literature in the Scandinavian countries.

Ingemar Rhedin was born in 1942 on a small island in Western Sweden and studied music and dramatic art in Vienna and philology at the universities of Lund, Uppsala, and Stockholm. His first definitive encounter with Greek literature and intellectual output was when he read "Zorba the Greek," and later, he wrote his thesis on Nikos Kazantzakis's "Odyssey." During the same period, he heard "Axion Esti" by Odysseas Elytis, set to music by Mikis Theodorakis, in Sweden and embarked on the challenging and laborious task of translating it into Swedish.