Dmetri Kakmi (born 1961) is a Turkish-born, ethnic Greek, Australian essayist, reviewer, speaker, broadcaster, editor and author.
His memoir of growing up on the island, titled Mother Land (2008, new edition by Eland 2015), has been published to widespread acclaim in Australia, England and Turkey.
[3] Kakmi also compiled and edited the children's anthology When We Were Young, and received the Peter Blazey Fellowship in 2008.
The essay 'Night of the Living Wog' is published in Joyful Strains: Making Australia Home, Affirm Press, 2013.
He lives in Melbourne with his partner, the illustrator Leigh Hobbs,[5] and until 2011 worked as a senior editor at Penguin Books.