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Dionysia Mousoura-Tsoukala was born in the beautiful island of Zakynthos in Greece, where she completed her secondary education. She’s the second born daughter of Father Spyridon and Chrysi. Father was the scholar and mother, the decision maker. The house was always full of books, books in every room. She migrated to Australia with her husband and their two children in 1967. In Melbourne she taught Modern Greek at the Greek Community Schools, as well as in the Education's Department Saturday Schools of Modern Languages for many years. She studied Interpreting / Translating at University R.M.I.T. in Melbourne, area she is still working in. She’s got special training as a Community Health Educator , with the Cancer Council of Victoria. She started writing literature when young. Many of her poems and short stories have won awards in Literary competitions and some of them have been published in newspapers of her home land as well as in Literary Periodicals in Australia, Greece and America. She's published a collection of poems titled "Withered Anemonies", in the book "Tetralogia", and she's participated in many Anthologies in Greece, as well as in the Anthology "Moments of Poetry" , a University R.M.I.T. publication. Her first short stories book "O Krataios Nostos" “Everlasting Nostalgia”, was published in 2000 by University R.M.I.T. Both books, "Tetralogia" and "O Krataios Nostos" have been awarded prices at the annual National Literature Competition of the "Angelidion Foundation". Her second short stories book, titled, “Ek Fiore and Ex Antipodon”, from Zakynthos to the Antipodes, came out in 2005,a Tsonis publication. Dionysia writes about emotions, human relationships and the migration experience through the eyes of her many heroes and heroines in her stories. Zakynthos, though, is everywhere in her writing. It follows her everywhere like the Cavafian City Her latest book, a bi lingual collection of poems, titled: “Words and Memories in Melbourne” En ti Polei tis Melvournis, a Tsonis publication, was published in 2007.


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