Author: Liaskos John

He was born in Athens in 1954 and from 1990 he has resided permanently in Melbourne. From 1995 he has actively participated in the cultural activities of the Greek community of Melbourne.

His poetic work has been published in literary magazines and anthologies which circulate in both Australia and Greece . He has also personally published 15 books, 8 of which constitute collective publications, and 7 which are individual poetic collections. Many of these published works have been awarded literary prizes.

Yianni has had active involvement in the publishing of over 20 Greek books, and through his editorial “?” a further 25 books have been printed whose authors were Greek-Australians.

The last 8 years, Yianni has collaborated articles, reports and hommages in numerous Greek newspapers of Melbourne , including “Nation”, “The News” and “ New World ”.

In “Nation” he composed the columns “About sonnet” and “In the city of thoughts”; in “The News”, the columns “As today” and “the 20th century through events and persons”. In the “ New World ”, he collaborated his work from the last five years in the columns: “As today”, “Foni Voontos”, “Stories from the past” and “Objections”.

Yianni has collaborated as producer and presenter with the Greek-speaking radio stations of Melbourne “3AB” and “3XY”. In “3AB” he presented the two-hour weekly emission “Akroama”, whilst also presenting “Our century”, “The world of book”, “Portraits” and “Ways” in “3XY”.

In 2001 he was honoured with the “HELLENIC” award for his offer in the letters of the Greek community of Melbourne .