Dimitris Tsaloumas

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Dimitris Tsaloumas (b. 1921) is a contemporary Greek-Australian poet.

Dimitris Tsaloumas was born in Greece on the island of Leros and came of age during the Italian and German occupation, acting as a courier for the resistance. He left for Australia in 1952 because of political persecution, where he earned a living by teaching. He started writing again in Greek and had several volumes published in that language, often with English translations.

Then in 1988 his first English poems were published as Falcon Drinking. Since then he has published several more volumes, gaining a considerable reputation both in Greece and Australia. He is now able to return to his homeland and spends much of his time on Leros. A collected poems was publish by UQP in 2000.

Among the many prizes he has received for his writing are the National Book Council Award (1983), Patrick White Award (1994) and an Emeritus Award from Literature Board of the Australia Council for outstanding and lifelong contribution to Australian literature (2002)

[edit] Bibliography

• The Observatory trans. Philip Grundy (UQP, 1983)
• Falcon Drinking (1988)
• Portrait of a Dog (1991)
• The Barge (1993)
• The Harbour (UQP, 1998)
• Stoneland Harvest: New & Selected Poems (Nottingham: Shoestring, 1999)
• Dimitris Tsaloumas: New & Selected Poems (UQP, 2000)

[edit] External sources

Links

• 2 poems (bottom of page)
• Old Man’s Last Pilgrimage
• Stoneland harvest manuscript facsimile
• Review of Stoneland Harvest

Publications

• Helen Nickas (ed. and int.) Dimitris Tsaloumas, a voluntary exile: selected writings on his life and work (Melbourne: Owl Publishing, 1999)

[edit] References

Dimitris Tsaloumas in Thylazine's Australian Artists and Writers Directory