Nea Estia

Nea Estia (Greek: Νέα Εστία) is a Greek literary magazine which has been circulating since 1927. It was founded by Konstantinos Sarandopoulos (d. 1972) with the international writer and publisher Gregorios Xenopoulos and is the longest-running literary magazine in Greece. Its director since 2012 is the writer and university professor Nikos Karapidakis and the publishing company is Nea Estia Booksellers, I.D. Kollarios & Co., which has been administered by its owner, the writer Eva Karaitidi, since 1998.

In the nineteenth-century, between 1876 and 1895 Estia (now a newspaper) was published, initially as a family periodical, later becoming a literary one. The directorship initially was held by the editor Pavlos Diomedes; after 1889 jointly with Nikolaos Politis, the folklorist and university professor and Georgios Drossinis, the poet, prose-writer and publisher. From 1894 until 1895 when it closed, it was taken over by the writer and publisher Gregorios Xenopoulos (as Iconographeia Estia), while at the same time George Drosinis started the newspaper Estia. Thirty years later, Xenopoulos wanted to revive the old periodical, but the newspaper Estia, which had come into the possession of Achilles Kyrou, legally precluded the use of the same name. Left in this position, the periodical took the name Nea Estia ("New Estia") and began circulation on 15 April, 1927.

The first director was Gregorios Xenopoulos, novelist and publisher, from 1927 until 1932. For two years Gregrios Xenopoulos held the directorship together with Petros Charis, the prose-writer, essayist and academic (1933–34), who took over alone after 1934 until 1987 (a long-running service of fifty-four years). In 1987 the writer and critic Evangelos N. Moschos took over until 1998, the writer Stavros Zoumboulakis until 2012, and after that the historian Nikos E. Karapidakis.

The founding publisher of the magazine Nea Estia was Konstantinos Sarandoupoulos, who from 1925 had become a partner with his father-in-law Ioannis D. Kollaros. Ioannis D. Kollaros was presented as the publisher beginning in 1927, later this became "Estia Booksellers, I.D. Kollarios & Co.". Later editions had Sarandopoulos together with I.D. Kollarou until 1956, when Kollaros died and continued with Sarandopoulos listed alone until 1972, when he died. The company was taken over after 1972 by his daughter, Marina "Mania" Koraitidi, which contiuned until 1998. From 1998 on the publication of the magazine has been run by her daughter, Eva Karaitidi, the writer.

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