Dinos Christianopoulos (nom de plume of Konstantinos Dimitriadis) was born in Thessaloniki, in 1931. He is a poet, scholar and literary critic. In 1958 he founded the literary journal "Diagonal", which he continued to publish until 1983. The journal acted as a greenhouse for contemporary poets and writers. In 1962 he started Diagonal Publications. His made his first appearance as a poet in 1949 with the poem "Biography". In 1950 he published the collection of poems "Season of the Lean Cows" and in 1954 the collection "Strangers' Knees". He has also published the poetry collections "Indefensible Yearning", 1960; "Suburbs", 1969; "Fresh Water Stories", 1980; as well as collections of stories ("The Lower Promenade", 1963; "Outcasts of the World", 1986) and studies (e.g. "The History and Aesthetic Formation of the Rebetic Song", 1961; "Essays", 1965; "The Sculpture of Modern Thessaloniki", 1969; "Verse from the Army", 1973; "Literary Books and Journals printed in Thessaloniki, 1850-1950", 1980; "With Art and Passion", 1988). His work was translated in English, in French, in Swedish and Danish. In January 2012, Dinos Christianopoulos was awarded Greece’s Grand Literary Prize, which he declined. He lives in Thessaloniki.
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