Dimitris P. Kraniotis: Biography

Dimitris P. Kraniotis is an award-winning Greek poet. He was born in 1966 in Stomio (Larissa) in central Greece. He studied Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He lives in Larissa (Greece) and works as a Medical Doctor (Internal Medicine specialist physician).

He is the author of 8 poetry books: "Traces" (in Greek, Greece 1985), "Clay Faces" (in Greek, Greece 1992), "Fictitious Line" (in Greek, English and French, Greece 2005, "Dunes" (in French and Romanian, Romania 2007), "Endogram" (in Greek, editions Malliaris Paideia, Greece 2010), "Edda" (in French and Romanian, Romania 2010), "Illusions"(in Albanian, Romania 2010) and "Leaves Vowels" (in Italian, Italy 2017). Also he is the Editor-in-chief of the international anthology in english "World Poetry 2011" (205 poets from 65 countries).

He was invited and he has participated in several International Poetry Festivals. In 2011 in Larissa the 22nd World Congress of Poets was organized under his presidency and he founded and organized the 1st Mediterranean Poetry Festival.

He has won many international awards (International Poet of Merit Award 2005, Muses Prize 2006, The Balkan Grand Prize for Poetry (shortlist) 2007, The Enchanting Poet  Award 2008, Golden Seal Book Award 2011, Mahatma Fule International Award for Poetry 2013, Naji Naaman's Literary Prize 2017, International Bogdani Prize 2017, etc) for his poetry which has been translated in 25 languages (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, German, Polish, Dutch, Serbian, Albanian, Romanian, Arabic, Chinese, Bulgarian, Turkish, Czech, Japanese, Bengali or Bangla, Persian or Farsi, Gujarati, etc) and published in many countries around the World. He is one of the 76 co-authors from 26 countries of the Global Harmony Association’s book “The ABC of Harmony” (candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize 2013). Also he is one of the 174 co-authors from 34 countries of the Global Harmony Association’s book “Global Peace Science” (candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize 2017).

He is Academician of the Academy Tiberina of Rome (Italy), Academician of the International Academy of Micenei (Italy), Doctor of Literature (Litt.D.), elected President of 22nd World Congress of Poets (Larissa, Greece 2011) by United Poets Laureate International, Founder and President of World Poets Society (W.P.S), Director emeritus of United Poets Laureate International (UPLI), President emeritus of the World Congress of Poets, International Director of the World Union of Poets (WUP), Chief representative in Greece of World Nation Writers’ Union (WNWU, Kazakhstan), Director for Greece of Writers Capital International Foundation (WCIF), Ambassador to Greece of “Poetas del Mundo” (Chile), Universal Peace Ambassador by Universal Ambassador Peace Circle (France) & Universal Peace Embassy (Switzerland), Vice-President of Thessaly Association of Letters and Arts, Editor of the greek poetry magazine “Poetics @ GR”, former Professor of the Department of Nursing in the University of Applied Sciences of Thessaly (TEI of Larissa) and member of several literary organizations (National Society of Greek Literary Writers, Hellenic Literary Society, Greek PEN, World Poetry Movement, etc).

His official website: http://www.dimitriskraniotis.com/