Prominent Greek Poet Kiki Dimoula Passes Away at 89

Kiki Dimoula, one of the most acclaimed and awarded Greek poets, passed away on Sunday afternoon after being hospitalized for the past few days with respiratory and heart problems. She was 89.

Kiki Dimoula was born in 1931 in Athens, where she lived all her life. She got married to engineer and poet Athos Dimoulas, with whom she had two children. She worked for the  the Bank of Greece for 25 years.

In 2002 she was elected as a full member of the Academy of Athens. In 2015 she was awarded an…