Nikos Dimou, born in 1935 in Athens, is a Greek writer and columnist. He started out as a copywriter and went on to become one of the best-known Greek intellectuals.
Biography
He graduated from Athens College and studied French literature in Athens. From 1954 to 1960, he studied philosophy at the University of Munich in Germany. He published his first book in 1953. In 1962, he started working in advertising as a copywriter. In 1965, he founded his own company. Other than trading commercials, the company created goodwill ads and public initiatives. In 1983, he withdrew from all business ventures in order to work full-time as a writer. In 1979, Dimou started writing columns for magazines, including Epikaira, 4 Trochoi, Tetarto and Photographos and newspapers including To Vima, Kathimerini, and the Sunday editions of Eleftherotypia and Ethnos. Dimou hosted his first talk show on Greek television in 1979, Μία Ταινία - Μία Συζήτηση, and returned in 1987 with a show called Διάλογοι. He also ran Περιπέτειες Ιδεών in 1991, and Μεγάλες Παρεξηγήσεις in 1999. As for radio, he was part of the team that founded Athens 98.4 FM. Later, he had a show on the Third Programme of the ERA state radio. He has won two journalist awards. In 1997, he became an honorary citizen of Ermoupoli, his mother's hometown. Dimou was awarded the Dimitris Mitropoulos award in 2000. Dimou has published over 60 books, mostly light non-fiction, including On the Unhappiness of being Greek, The New Greeks, The LostSocial Class, Apology of an Anti-Hellene. He has done some hobby photographic work, published two photo albums and has had three photo exhibitions. For seven years he was a columnist in the Greek free pressmagazineLIFO and lately published in the site "Protagon.gr". His book "On the Unhappiness of being Greek" has been reprinted 32 times in Greece and has been published in many languages. These are German, French, English, Italian and Spanish. Poems of his have been translated in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. 2014 he also published a new book in Germany "The Germans are to blame for everything".. In politics, he failed to become elected in the European Parliament election in 2009 for the Greek party Drasi. In March 2014 he became a member of the new Greek party "The River".He resigned one month later because of a difference of opinions on state-church relations.
