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Kiki Dimoula

She was born and lived in Athens (1931–2020). She married the civil engineer and poet Athos Dimoulas, with whom she had two children. She worked as a clerk at the Bank of Greece for 25 years. In 2002, she was elected a full member of the Academy of Athens. In 1964, she received an honourable mention from the Group of Twelve for her collection *In the Footsteps*. In 1972, she was awarded the Second State Poetry Prize for the collection *The Little of the World*, in 1989 with the First State Poetry Prize for the collection *Rejoice Never*, and in 1995 with the Academy of Athens’ Ouranis Prize for the collection *The Adolescence of Oblivion*. In 2001, she was awarded the Academy of Athens’ Prize for Excellence in Literature for her entire body of work, and the Golden Cross of the Order of Honour by the President of the Republic, Konstantinos Stefanopoulos. In March 2010, the Association Capitale Européenne des Littératures awarded her the European Prize for Literature as part of the fifth European Literature Meeting. In the same year, she was honoured for her entire body of work with the Grand State Prize for Literature. In 2015, she was awarded an honorary doctorate in Theology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her poems have been translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Bulgarian, German and Swedish.

Public weather

Kiki Dimoula

AND YET IT MOVES Rise, day. Wash up, your breakfast is ready the world is served fresh, just cut from the tree of sleep. Take its dream with you too for your lunch. Save a little for dusk as well you’ll be hungry the shops will be closed. Just restrain as much as you can your ostentatious, self-indulgent sprawl. Since you know the back of a mountain can blow you away in an instant.

The brazen plagiarist

Kiki Dimoula

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Greenhouse Grass

Kiki Dimoula

Poems

Kiki Dimoula

Includes the collections: Erebos In Absence On the Trail The Little of the World My Last Body Hail Never The Adolescence of Oblivion

I Passed By - Erlebt

Kiki Dimoula

A bilingual edition of poems by Kiki Dimoula (Greek - German), translated by Danti Sideri-Speck. With seven illustrations by Yannis Psychopedis.

Encounter

Yiannis Psychopedis, Kiki Dimoula

The book includes seventy-three paintings by Yannis Psychopedis, created specifically for this edition between August and December 2006, as a form of inspired dialogue between the painter and the poet. The selection of Kiki Dimoula’s poems was made by the painter himself from her complete works. The publication also includes Kiki Dimoula’s unpublished poem ‘I posted you a pebble yesterday’, written on the occasion of this poetic-visual ‘Encounter’. As Yannis Psychopedis writes in the book’s foreword: ‘…The flow of poetry and that of painting are like two untamed rivers running parallel, each with its own waters, its own sources, yet connected deep within the earth, and emerging from a common outlet… And the more painting and poetry remain true to themselves, the more they can understand one another and capture the deepest psychological landscape, the common ground that connects them and within which they blossomed…’

We were transported alongside

Kiki Dimoula

BE CAREFUL When you set the table before you sit down check meticulously the chair opposite you whether it is sturdy, whether it creaks whether the notches have loosened whether the joints have worn away whether the frame is rotting worm because the one who does not sit becomes heavier every day.

Off the Plan

Kiki Dimoula

In the form of commentary, chronicle or short story, these texts have autobiographical, confessional or, at times, ethnographic content, reflecting the era in which they were written but also a whole world, experiences, thoughts and feelings that we have come to know through the poetry of Kiki Dimoula. These texts are a selection from the ‘Cyclograms’ written between 1959 and 1967 and published in the Bank of Greece’s magazine ‘Kyklos’, where Kiki Dimoula worked. In the foreword to the volume, the poet delightfully explains the reasoning behind this ‘unplanned’ publication.

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