"Dimitris T. Annalis"

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Dimitris T. Annalis (4 December 1938, Athens – 10 February 2012, Piraeus) was a Greek French-speaking poet, author, essayist, translator, critic, journalist and diplomat. He wrote most of his work in French and most of his books were published in France.

He went to high school at the Anargyrio and Corgialene School of Spetses between 1951 and 1956. He continued his studies in Law and Political Sciences in Paris from 1957 to 1962, then in Lausanne and Geneva between 1963 and 1969. The doctoral thesis of Les Balkans 1945-1960 – La prise du pouvoir (Balkans 1945-1960 – The occupation of power) was published in 1978 in Paris and was considered the first in-depth analysis of the Balkan region in French.

From 1971 to 1972 he was Head of International Relations & Director of the EOT Press Office in Athens. Between 1974–1981 he was an associate in the Le Monde newspaper in Paris. From 1986 to 1988 he was a special adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris and at the same time (1986–1991) was editor in the Swiss journals Athena and Express. In 1989 he became Professor of Geostrategics at the Centre for Diplomatic & Strategic Studies in Paris, until 1994). From 1995 to 1997 he was an associate of the Greek Embassy's Press Office in Paris and after 1978 he was a member of the International Minority Rights Supervision Council in Paris until 1998.

Awards and discrimination
Silver medal of European value (Luxembourg)
Gold medal of the Serbian Letters Society
Serbian Army Honorary Diploma
Knight of Academic Phoenicians (France)
Officer of Letters and Arts (France)
Supreme Order Commander Niegos II (Serbia)
Standal Award from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs for his contribution to letters and science
Grand Francophony Medal of the French Academy
Honorary member of the Society of Writers

His works

Poems
Lied, Athens 1957
Hands, Diphros 1958
Le prince des lys (The Prince of the Lilies), Paris 1958
Modern Greek student readings, Athens 1962
Panoréa (Uranoupoli) (in English and Greek), L'âge d'homme Texts, 1971
La minuterie du sommeil (The Sleep Timer), Paris, 1971
The sun of the rivers, Tram, 1972
The haunted island, Ermea, 1974
Wandering sails, Polyplane, 1976
The shadow building, Polyplane, 1978 (L'ombre qui bâtit, 1993)
No evidence of the wind, Polyplane, 1978
La maison de l' error, Paris, (1980), Plasma
Terre d'errance (Earth of wandering), Paris, 1988
Pays exclusive (Country exclusive), Paris, 1991
Border, Mimnermos, 1991
Oedipus in dust, Mimnermos 1991
Journal de corps, L'atelier imaginaire, 1991 (Body Calendar, Mimnermos, 2005)
Hommes de l'autre ve (People of the other bank), Paris, Obsidianne, 2002, A. A. Livani 2006
Le temps vertical (The Vertical Time) - with drawings by Alekos Fasianos, Mimnermos - Hierofant, 2011