Konstantinos Dimitriadis (; 20 March 1931 – 11 August 2020), better known by his pen name Dinos Christianopoulos (Ντίνος Χριστιανόπουλος), was a Greek contemporary and post-war poet, novelist, folklorist, and scholar.Στον Ντίνο Χριστιανόπουλο το Μεγάλο Βραβείο Γραμμάτων 2011 He was also a music scholar who wrote about rebetiko.
Legacy He is widely known for writing the couplet: "What didn’t you do to bury me / but you forgot I was a seed."
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 ThessalonikiΝτίνος Χριστιανόπουλος, o αιρετικός της Θεσσαλονίκης in 1955. He worked as a librarian from 1958 to 1965.
His first poem Age of Lean Cows was published in 1947. He was influenced by Constantine P. CavafyΝτίνος Χριστιανόπουλος: «Δεν έβγαλα ούτε μια δραχμή από την ποίηση» Demosthenes Kurtovic, "Greek Post-War Writers", Patakis Publications, 2nd ed., Athens 1999, p. 274 and T.S. Eliot. Dimitriadis was gay, but he never claimed his sexuality.Η ζωή και ο θάνατος του Ντίνου Χριστιανόπουλου He was awarded the 2011 National Grand Prix for Literature, but refused to pick it up.Ο Ντίνος Χριστιανόπουλος αρνήθηκε το Μεγάλο Βραβείο Γραμμάτων Aristotle University of Thessaloniki awarded him an honorary doctorate in June 2011.
He died on 11 August 2020 at the age of 89.Εφυγε από τη ζωή ο Ντίνος Χριστιανόπουλος His work was donated to the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Bibliography Season of the Lean Cows, 1950 Indefensible Yearning, 1960 Fresh Water Stories, 1980 The Body and the Wormwood The downward turn: Fourteen short stories, 1994
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