About Garivaldis Iakovos

Iakovos (founder of Diasporic Literature Spot) was born in Thessaloniki Greece, and arrived in Australia as a migrant in 1970. He has studied Computer Science and is an Approved U2 Developer / Administrator  with IBM.

He has been writing poetry (in both Greek and English) since he was a child and here in Australia was President of Hellenic Writer's Association of Australia between 1993 and 2004.

He founded the first bi-lingual literature website in Australia in 1997, organised the first book exhibition of the works of writers from Greek origin in Australia. Together with Costas Athanasiou organised the first photographic exhibition of writers' portraits of Greek origin in Australia and was the first to research literature on the internet by Greeks of Diaspora, a paper which was presented at the Flinders University Conference of Greek Research in 2005 and published in the University's bi-annual research journal.

Γεννήθηκε στη Θεσσαλονίκη, έφτασε στην Αυστραλία το 1970 και υπηρέτησε σε πολλούς παροικιακούς οργανισμούς. Γράφει λογοτεχνία στην Ελληνική και Αγγλική από παιδική ηλικία.