Dimitris Stathopoulos was born in Aristodemio, Messinia, Greece. Having completed his secondary education in 1947, he worked at the Prefecture of Attica (1947-1949) and, following army service, stayed on the family property until his emigration to Adelaide in 1958. He moved his family to Sydney in 1960, where he worked at Dunlop until 1963. Following an industrial accident, he was unemployed until 1967, when he started working for the New South Wales Railways. His poetry first appeared in the Athens weekly Edo Athina in 1948, and he continued to contribute poetry and short stories to various Greek newspapers. He was co-founder and first president (1978-1981) of the Hellenic Writers' and Artists Association of Australia. In 1961 and 1964, several of his short stories, submitted under pseudonyms, received honourable mentions in the short story competitions of the Federation of Greek Orthodox Communities of Australia. He published a collection of stories Oi xerrizomenoi [The Uprooted] in Athens in 1982 but this was not traced in Australia.
