hen Rolex first contacted Julia Leigh about applying for its inaugural Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, she was cautious. It was the early 2000s and the writer was 32 and living in Paris after having received international acclaim for her sparse and haunting 1999 novel , about a man alone in the Australian wilderness tracking down the last Tasmanian tiger. “The program at the time simply didn’t exist,” Leigh reflects. She is in Athens as part of the 20th anniversary celebration for the initiative, for which Rolex has flown in past mentors and protégés, from writer Naomi Alderman to Australian composer Ben Frost, to take part in a grand three-day festival in May featuring art installations, live music,
