SOLDATOS DIMITRIS

Dimitris E. Soldatos was born in Lefkada in 1969. Beginning in 2000 and for many years thereafter he worked in the local newspaper “ta Nea tis Lefkadas” writing the column “the Poem of the Week” as well as many political and social-content articles. He pioneered in the maintenance of Sikelianos house and its conversion into a museum and found, maintained and gave to the public library of Lefkada the table on which Kostas Kariotakis wrote his last poems in Preveza. He has published four poetical collections so far: Non-Existent, 1988. Living Dead, 1989. Manual for the Ones in Love – out of trade – 2003. The following year he published the collection “Cafe Retro” for which he was honoured in 2007 with the award “Lambros Porfiras” from the Athens Academy. Nobel because of artlessness, 2009. 1000 disticha, 2010. SAN-TA MAVRA, 2010. Dimitris E. Soldatos is a marathon runner.