Kiki Dimoula is one of the most acclaimed Greek poets alive, and a full member of the Academy of Athens. She has been awarded the European Prize for Literature, has twice received the Greek National Poetry Prize, as well as several other national prizes, among which the Grand National Prize for lifetime achievement.

Dimoula published her first poetic collection in 1956 and has since been widely published in Greece and translated into English, French, Spanish, and many other languages.

An edition of selected poems by Dimoula was published by Yale University Press, on October 2012, under the title The Brazen Plagiarist. The poems, translated by Cecile Inglessis Margellos and Rika Lesser, have also appeared in literary journals such as the Boston Review and Little Star.

The print edition of the International Herald Tribune published a lengthy interview of the poet to Rachel Donadio – who described her poetry as "profound, unsentimental, effortlessly transforming the quotidian into the metaphysical".

Dimoula defined herself not as a visionary poet, but as someone inspired by daily life. "I want to transform reality into something less real", she said in the interview. Her work drew very good reviews by the likes of Yves Bonnefoy, who characterized her poems as "reflections of a cloudy sky in earthly words."

YouTube: 'The Periphrastic Stone' by Kiki Dimoula [VIDEO]