Poets

Dimitris P. Kraniotis was born in 1966 in Larissa Prefecture in central Greece and he grew up in Stomio (Larissa). He studied Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He lives in Larissa (Greece) and works as a medical doctor (internal medicine specialist). 

He is the author of 10 poetry books in Greece and abroad: “Traces” (Greece 1985), “Clay Faces” (Greece 1992), “Fictitious Line” (Greece 2005), “Dunes” (Romania 2007), “Endogram” (Greece 2010), “Edda” (Romania 2010), “Illusions” (Romania 2010), “Leaves Vowels” (Italy 2017), “Tie of Public Decency” (Greece 2018) and “Minus one” (Spain 2022). Also he is the Editor-in-chief of the international anthology in English “World Poetry 2011” (205 poets from 65 countries). 

He has won many international awards for his poetry which has been translated in 28 languages & published in books, anthologies & magazines in many countries around the World. He has been invited and participated in several International Poetry Festivals. 

He is Doctor of Literature, Academician in Italy, President Emeritus of the World Congress of Poets (UPLI),  President of the 22nd World Congress of Poets (Greece 2011), Founder and President of the World Poets Society (WPS), Founder and Director of the Mediterranean Poetry Festival (Larissa, Greece), Chairman of the Writers for Peace Committee of PEN Greece, Ambassador of the Movement “Poetas del Mundo” to Greece and member of the World Poetry Movement (WPM), Hellenic Literary Society (EEL), National Society of Greek Literary Writers (EEEL), etc. His official website: http://www.dimitriskraniotis.com/