Kiki Dimoula

Kiki Dimoula

Infobox Writer
name = Kiki Dimoula
"Κική Δημουλά"


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birthdate = 19-6-1931
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nationality= Greek
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spouse = Athos Dimoulas [1921-1985]
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occupation =poet
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period =1952–
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Life

Kiki Dimoula ( _el. Κική Δημουλά) (b. Athens 1931) is an acclaimed Greek poet. She worked as a clerk for the Bank of Greece. She was married to the poet Athos Dimoulas (1921-1985), with whom she had two children. Since 2002 she is a member of the Academy of Athens. [ [http://www.academyofathens.gr/ecportal.asp?id=198&nt=18&lang=2 Academy Of Athens ] ]

She has been awarded the Greek State Prize twice (1971, 1988), as well as the Kostas and Eleni Ouranis Prize (1994) and the "Αριστείο Γραμμάτων" of the Academy of Athens (2001) [ [http://www.dedalus.gr/gr/author.asp?id=82 ΤΡΑΙΝΟ (Συγγραφείς - Μέλη) ] ] . She is to be awarded the European Literature Prize for 2010 [ [http://www.greekinsight.com/show_art.asp?id=4989 Kiki Dimoula to Receive European Literature Prize] ] . Her poetry has been translated into English, French, German, Swedish, Spanish and many other languages.

Work

Her work is haunted by the existential dissolution of the post-world era. Her themes are homelessness, insecurity, absence and oblivion. She uses her unconventional use of twisting grammar, accentuates the power of the words through astonishment and surprise and always manages to retain a sense of hope even when she refers to the Marlboro boy or mobile phones [ [http://www.greekembassy.org/Embassy/Content/en/Article.aspx?office=1&folder=25&article=20709 European Poetry in Motion] ] [ [http://www.ambathen.um.dk/en/menu/Culture/PreviousEvents/REFLECTIONS+AMeetingOfDanishAndGreekPoets.htm REFLECTIONS - A MEETING OF DANISH AND GREEK POETS] ] .

Poetry

*"Ποιήματα" (Poems), 1952
*"Έρεβος" (Erebus), 1956
*"Ερήμην" (In absentia), 1958
*"Επί τα ίχνη" (On the trail), 1963
*"Το λίγο του κόσμου" (The Little of the World),1971
*"Το Τελευταίο Σώμα μου" (My last body), 1981
*"Χαίρε ποτέ" (Farewell Never),1988
*"Η εφηβεία της Λήθης" (Lethe's Adolescense), 1996
*"Eνός λεπτού μαζί" (One Minute's Together), 1998
*"Ήχος απομακρύνσεων" (Departure's Sound), 2001
*"Χλόη θερμοκηπίου" (Glass-house lawn), 2005
*"Μεταφερθήκαμε παραπλεύρως" (We moved next door), 2007

Notes

External links

* [http://www.greece2001.gr/writers/KikiDimoula.html Her entry for the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair (Greek)]
* [http://www.dedalus.gr/gr/author.asp?id=82 Her page at the website of the Hellenic Authors' Society (Greek)] and [http://www.dedalus.gr/en/author.asp?id=82 English] .
* [http://www.snhell.gr/lections/writer.asp?id=69 Sound files of her reading her poetry at the Center for Neo-Hellenic Studies]
* [http://www.ekdoseis-ikaros.gr/Index.asp The website of her publishers]


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