He died at the age of 65 journalist, author and a translator Dimitris Triantafyllidis. His son, Vassilis, announced the sad news of his death through his post on Facebook.
Son’s job
“I want to inform you that my father, Dimitris Triantafyllidis, finished his world tour last night in the hospital where he was treated for the last few months. He sat after a terrible torment. Dimitris was born in Toumpa, Thessaloniki on December 9, 1959, where he spent the first part of his life. In 1980 he left to study Philosophy in Kiev in the former Soviet Union and returned five years later. He then completed his theological studies in Thessaloniki, before moving to Athens, where he spent most of his life.
Since then, he has worn many hats, those of teacher, journalist, poet, writer and translator. As a translator he was perhaps the most active of his time, with over 130 translations from Russian to Greek, having worked on essays, poems, literary collections, but also on archival material from the Soviet Union, which contributed to memory preserve the soviet. victims of Soviet totalitarianism.
He spent his last years in Eretria, together with his beloved dogs, which filled him and brought him joy. I will miss the conversations we had about philosophy, literature, politics, music, and the wonderful meals we shared at his favorite places.
He wanted the funeral to take place in Ritsona, Evia. I will update you further as soon as I have any news.
Thank you very much for the hundreds of messages you have sent to him and to me all this time, I want to make sure that he felt your love and that it gave him strength in difficult times.
Be good and remember it.”
Who was Dimitris Triantafyllidis?
Dimitris V. Triantafyllidis was born in 1959 in Thessaloniki. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Taras Shevchenko State University in Kyiv and then studied Theology at AUTH.
From a very young age, he was interested in Russian literature and thus began to translate iconic figures and texts. He had more than 130 books translated, covering the entire range of Russian literature: philosophy, theology, history, politics, prose, poetry, theater, literary criticism, etc.
In 2014 he founded the magazine “Stepa”, a quarterly review of Russian culture, in which he published translations of important thinkers and writers, both past and present, in an effort to make it easier for the Greek reader to engage with the complex and interesting . a phenomenon known as “Russian culture”.
At the same time, he published articles and studies in contemporary Greek journals.
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