Kiki Dimoulà

The recorded working language is Modern Greek. The field of work recorded is poetry and bank. Residence is recorded at Kypseli, Athens. Employment is recorded with Bank of Greece. Positions recorded include Member of the Athens Academy. Distinctions recorded are European Prize for Literature, Greek State Literary Awards, Macedonian Award and Athens Academy Awards.

• Name — Kiki Dimoula • Birth Name — Vasiliki Radou • Born — 6 June 1931 • Birthplace — Athens, Greece • Died — 22 February 2020 • Place of death — Athens, Greece • Spouse — Athos Dimoulas (1952–1985) • Children — 2 • Occupation — Poet • Period — 1952–2020

Dimoula's work is haunted by the existential dissolution of the post-war era. Her central themes are hopelessness, insecurity, absence and oblivion. Using diverse subjects (from a "Marlboro boy" to mobile phones) and twisting grammar in unconventional ways, she accentuated the power of the words through astonishment and surprise, but always managed to retain a sense of hope. Her poetry has been translated into English, French, German, Swedish, Danish, Spanish, Italian and many other languages. In 2014, the eleventh issue of Tinpahar published 'Kiki Dimoula in Translation', which featured three English translations of her better known works.

Dimoula was 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). She was awarded the European Prize for Literature for 2009. Since 2002, Dimoula was a member of the Academy of Athens.

Dimoula worked as a clerk for the Bank of Greece. She was married to the poet Athos Dimoulas (1952–1985), with whom she had two children.

• 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 Adolescence), 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 • Συνάντηση (Meeting), 2007 (Anthology with seventy-three paintings by John Psychopedis) • Έρανος Σκεψεων, 2009 • Τα εύρετρα, 2010 • Δημόσιος Καιρός, 2014

Kiki Dimoulà is recorded as having received European Prize for Literature, Greek State Literary Awards and Macedonian Award. Recorded at birth as Βασιλική Ράδου.