Dimitris Fotopoulos

Dimitris Fotopoulos was born in Kalamata in the mid-20th century, where he completed his secondary education. In 1967, the dictatorship regime deemed him disloyal due to his communist activities and barred him from university admission, simultaneously drafting him as a muleteer. In 1969, while serving as a muleteer, he participated again in the national entrance exams and was admitted to the Mathematics Department of the University of Athens. In 1971, he was discharged from the army with a three-month delay and settled in Exarchia. While attending university, he worked as a mathematics tutor and was actively involved in the Communist Party of the Interior under precarious legality, as well as in the anti-dictatorship student movement, serving as president of the Messinian Students' Association. During the early politically charged period of the Metapolitefsi (1977-1990), he ran six times as a parliamentary candidate for Messinia with formations of the historical Left (Alliance, Communist Party of the Interior, Coalition). In 1982, he married Dimitra-Sibylla Vasiliou, a costume designer and daughter of the painter Spyros Vasiliou, and they settled in Agia Paraskevi, where their two children, Antonia and Nikolas, were born. By choice, he became a mathematics teacher, initially teaching in tutoring centers, and for the last thirty school years, he has been teaching in public middle and high schools. He has published articles in "Avgi," and in the press of Kalamata and Agia Paraskevi. Consequently, he has always maintained a friendly relationship with writing.