From the Island of Aphrodite to Terra Australis: Greek-Cypriot Literary Writing in Australia

Abstract

The Greek literature of the diaspora hasn’t been studied yet and is generally ignored by most “official” neohellenic histories of literature. A great many Greek Cypriots live in Australia, especially since 1974, and a large number of Cypriot-Australian authors draw their inspiration from the people and historic adventures of their motherland, Cyprus, as well as from their new country and the world at large. They write poems or narratives in Greek, more rarely in the Cypriot dialect and sometimes in English.