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Dinos Christianopoulos
Greek poet (1931–2020)
Konstantinos Dimitriadis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Δημητριάδης; 20 March 1931 – 11 August 2020), better known by his pen name Dinos Christianopoulos (Ντίνος Χριστιανόπουλος), was a Greek contemporary and post-war poet, novelist, folklorist, and scholar.[1] He was also a music scholar who wrote about rebetiko.[2]
As Christianopoulos, he is widely known for writing the couplet: "They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds."[3]