Dimitris Kanellopoulos was born in 1954 in the municipality of Nemoúta, Heleias County, Peloponnese. In 1958, the family moved to Athens, where he still lives today. He is a graduate of the Faculty of History-Archaeology of the Kapodistrian University of Athens and of the Faculty of History-Philosophy of the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca.

He worked in various publishing houses and as a philologist in private education.

He has published the poetry collections Stone Fog, Heridanos Publishing House, 1986, Solitudinii Avarorum (Scythian Deserts), Kolonos Publishing House, 1996, Wireless Silence Kolonos Publishing House, 2005, Bed of Seed Good, Oropedio Publishing House, 2010, and Memory Dam, Oropedio Publishing House, 2016.

In 2023, in June he is awarded in Piteşti, Romania at the FIL STREET FESTIVAL OF POETRY, Street Literature, for the translation of the Romanian Language and publication of ANTOLOGY: 95 Ρomanian Poets of the 20th Century. In September of the same year, he participated in the International Poetry Festival in Cluj, where the book OPERA POETICA by Konstantinos P. Cavafis was presented, in his own translation in collaboration with the prose writer and poet Eugene Uricaru, at the Ardeleana School Publishing House. For the first time the entire poetic work of the great Greek and world poet Konstantinos P. Cavafis has been translated.

In 2018 he published his first collection of short stories The death of astritis (Male of viper), and other stories, (Kihli Publishing House) with which he won the National Prize for Short Stories-2019. In 2022 he published his second collection of short stories In the years of the Red Count (Kastaniotis Publishing House).

In 1982 he presented an Anthology of Romanian Literature, in the literary magazine Poliorkia, no. 16, April 1982.

In 1984 he published in Romania an Anthology of Greek poetry with the title 42 contemporary Greek poets, (translators: Alexandru Caprăriu, Vasile Igna, Aurel Rău), Dacia Publishing House.

In 1996 he translated and presented in the magazine PLANODION nr.24, on the poetry of the Romanian poet Anatol E. Baconski. Over the years he has translated many Romanian poets and prose writers into Greek. His poems have been translated into Albanian, English, Romanian, French and published in various literary magazines.

Since 2006 he edits the magazine Oropedio and is currently the director of OROPEDIO Publishing House.

August 2026