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Dimou Nikos
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Nikos Dimou was born in Athens in 1935. He graduated from Athens College in 1954, simultaneously studying French language and literature. He went on in 1954-60 to study philosophy and English literature at Munich University. His first book was published in 1958. There followed a further fifty-eight - poetry, prose, essays, satire, translations – which have gone through several successive editions (a complete list appears at the end of the book). In 1962 he started working in advertising. The agency he founded in 1965 quickly climbed to the top ranks in the Greek market. Apart from its marketing successes, the agency became well known for its public interest initiatives (e.g., its slogan “I won’t forget” in connection with the Cyprus issue). In 1983 he retired from his business engagements and took up writing full time. Since 1979 he has been active as a journalist, holding regular columns in the magazines Epikaira, 4 Trochoi, Tetarto, Photographer, Status, Odyssey, RAM and Car, as well as in the daily newspapers To Vima and Kathimerini and the Sunday Eleftherotypia and Ethnos. He was the first Greek writer to host television talk-shows, notably on literary and ideological issues (“Dialogues” 1987, “Adventures in Ideas” 1991, “Major Misunderstandings” 1999). He was also the first to acquire, from 1997, his own website on the Internet(http://www.ndimou.gr). In radio he belonged to the founding team of 9.84 FM. Later he was responsible for some broadcasts on the cultural programme of ERA, the state radio authority. He can boast of two journalism awards (the Ipectsi prize for Greco-Turkish friendship and the Botsis prize) and of ten resignations. He also took up photography in 1950, and has published two albums of photographs, has held three exhibitions of his works and has run photography columns in magazines. In 1997 the Municipal Council of Ermoupolis, Syros – his mother’s home city – conferred honorary citizenship upon him. In 2000 he was honoured for his contributions to culture with the Dimitris Mitropoulos prize.
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MY STREETS
A profoundly honest and harrowingly sincere confession of the soul..
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