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Dinos Christianopoulos (Ντίνος Χριστιανόπουλος), was a Greek contemporary and post-war poet, novelist, folklorist, and scholar.!
The poet of Thessaloniki and rebetiko scholar Dinos Christianopoulos died last August leaving behind him a rich and diverse poetic legacy.
Dinos Christianopoulos
Greek poet (1931–2020)
Konstantinos Dimitriadis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Δημητριάδης; 20 March 1931 – 11 August 2020), better known by his pen nameDinos Christianopoulos (Ντίνος Χριστιανόπουλος), was a Greek contemporary and post-war poet, novelist, folklorist, and scholar.[1] He was also a music scholar who wrote about rebetiko.[2]
As Christianopoulos, he is widely known for writing the couplet: "They tried to bury us.
They didn't know we were seeds."[3]
Biography
Dimitriadis was born in Thessaloniki on 20 March 1931, the son of a refugee from East Thrace. He received a degree in Classical Studies from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki[4] in 1955.
He worked as a librarian from 1958 to 1965.
Dinos Christianopoulos was born in Thessaloniki, in He is a poet, scholar and literary critic, and also a mentor for a younger generation.His first poem Age of Lean Cows was published in 1947. He was influenced by Constantine P. Cavafy[5][6] and T.S. Eliot. Dimitriadis was gay, but he never claimed his sexuality.[7] He
