Background
Dimitris P. Papaditsas was born in Samos, in 1922, son of an army officer
Dimitris P. Papaditsas was born in Samos, in 1922, son of an army officer
He studied medicine at the University of Athens, graduating in 1958.
He continued with his studies, focusing in orthopedics, in Munich. Between 1943 and 1947 he worked for the Red Cross, and between 1951 and 1967 he was physician and orthopedic surgeon in several hospitals in Athens and other provincial Greek cities. In 1976, he moved to Athens and became director of the National Greek Institute of Rehabilitation.
Gonatas, and collaborated in other literary magazines such as Youth Voice (Νεανική Φωνή), New Hestia (Νέα Εστία), The Target (Ο Στόχος), among others
He received twice the First State Award for Poetry for Poetry I (Ποίηση Ι) in 1963 and for Δυοειδή λόγο in 1980. His work is unique amidst the generation raised during the war in displaying a pronounced lyrical tendency, and a repertory of autonomous images reminiscent of Pierre Reverdy.
Gonatas, Ektor Kaknavatos, Nanos Valaoritis, Yorgos V. Makris, among other writers. Being close to Epameinondas Church
Gonatas and Ektor Kaknavatos, he cultivated the vein of a lyrical surrealism, which after his first two books became increasingly mild, whereas his work assumed explicitly metaphysical overtones from then on.
Papaditsas died in Athens.