The Greek Civil War brought the leftist guerrillas to Lia, who would announce a plan to remove young children from the village and send them to camps in sympathetic countries such as Albania where they would be "fed and educated as Communists."Įleni managed to have four of her children escape (one daughter had already been conscripted). His earliest years were spent in the Greek village of Lia with his loving mother, Eleni, and four sisters while his father had left to find work in the United States, settling in Worcester. That kid, born Nikos Gatzoyiannis, had already been through a lot of trauma. 21 as part of Grafton's Small Stones Festival of the Arts, he'll begin with "an immigrant kid who didn't know English at the age of 10." When Nicholas Gage gives a talk titled "A Writer's Odyssey" Oct.
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