Title: Ο ΚÌKLOS- Minàs Dimàkis
(in Greek)
Author: Collective
Introduction: Dr. Eftychia Panayiotou
Publisher: Bank of Greece (Centre for
Culture, Research and Documentation)
Year of publication: 2023
Number of pages: 92
Dimensions: 29 x 21 cm
Book type: Honorary
Non-commercial publication
About Kyklos
Kyklos (meaning “circle”) was the name of the first staff magazine of the Bank of Greece.
Its publication began in 1961 and ended in 1969, soon after the arrival of the Greek junta.
Kyklos featured economic articles and articles of general interest, but also short stories,
poems etc. by important people of Greek letters, such as Elias Venezis, Kiki Dimoula,
Nassos Detzortzis etc., who also served as employees of the Bank of Greece.
The Centre for Culture, Research and Documentation inaugurated a series of events in
the memory of those people and published accompanying commemorative issues of
Kyklos with reprints of their original collaborations. In this way, the totality of their work
in Kyklos was compiled in a single issue.
About this issue
Minas Dimakis (1913-1980) was a member of the Academy of Athens, an established poet
of the “First Postwar Generation”, an essayist and a literary magazines publisher. He
received three awards for his poetry (in 1957, 1961 and 1974) and two for his essays (in
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1974 and 1975). Apart from the poems and articles he had contributed to Kyklos
magazine, this commemorative issue also includes an introduction by Dr. Eftychia
Panayiotou and three more articles on Dimakis’s life and work/activity (one in reprint), an
interview of his, specimens of his correspondence with renowned writers and poets in
Greece and abroad, as well as rare photos. The issue was published in celebration of the
110 years from his birth in Heraklion, Crete.