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.
- ISBN: 978-960-9527-20-0
- Publication: 2004
- Categories: Literature, eBooks, Greek Literature
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.
