Nicholas Kyriacos

Nicholas Kyriacos was born in 1950 in Sydney. The son of Greek parents from the island of Kastellorizo, Nicholas received a very strong traditional upbringing, and barely spoke English when he started school. He had a life-changing experience when he started to read the novels of Patrick White and fell in love with the written word. He began writing in his mid to late twenties, became a secondary-school English teacher in 1980, and was appointed headmaster in 1987. Nicholas resigned in 2000 to concentrate on his writing. Billy's Tree is his first novel.

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