Dimitris Tsaloumas | Image by Helen Nickas,. From Nickas’ Cordite article – A Diasporic Journey: Greek-Australian Poetry in Bilingual and English Publications

SBS is reporting that Greek-Australian poet Dimitris Tsaloumas has died, aged 94, in Greece where he spent most of his time in recent years  http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/ greek/en/content/rip-dimitris-tsaloumas-poet

The following biographical detail comes from the Auslit Database and the Australian Poetry Library:

Dimitris Tsaloumas was born in Greece, he was educated in the Italian language, as the Dodecanese islands belonged to Italy between 1912 and 1947. Later, he attended a school on Rhodes, where he also studied violin. By the time he left Greece in 1951, he had published two collections of poetry. One of these collections was printed with the help of English writer Lawrence Durrell who met Tsaloumas on Rhodes and, impressed with the manuscript, arranged the printing at the expense of the British Information Office where Durrell…