Dimitris Fyssa’s voice and pen fell silent.

At 68, the longtime partner of Athens 9.84 as well as Athens Voice and Athens Review of Books is no longer with us. He was born in Athens in 1956 and studied Modern Greek Philology and Political Science.

He left behind a rich body of work.

“The generation of the Polytechnic. A biographical dictionary” (Delfini publications, 1993). A year later, again from Delfini publications, “Strictly inappropriate. Athenian sex cinema programs. Contribution to Sociology”.

In the 2000s publishes his first works of literature: The short stories entitled “Agyristo koi” in 2004 and, the following year, the novel “Lenin Square, ex-Syntagma”, both published by Estia.

In 2008, His alternative history novel, titled “Soldier of Christ. Diary difficult to translate”. In the same year, in Yaou publications. Mr. presents a collection of poems, “Urban spaces are poetry in themselves. Poems 1972-2008″.

In 2012 returns to Estia publications, with the novel “The weekend reader” and the following year presents the research “The cinemas of Athens 1896 – 2013. Stories of the urban landscape” as well as the poetry collection “Tis kaylas + U vonites”. Blasphemous poems and blasphemous parodies.”

His new novel, entitled “The gardener and the opportunist” was presented by Estia publications in 2014, as well as the novel “Niloufer in the years of crisis”, in 2015.