Manolis

Manolis was born on the island of Crete in 1947. Educated in Greece (BA in Political Sciences, Panteios Supreme School of Athens). He served in the armed forces for two years, and emigrated to Vancouver in 1973, after which he worked in several different jobs over the years.

He attended Simon Fraser University for a year taking English Literature in a non-degree program. He has written three novels, a number of collections of poetry, which are slowly appearing as published works, various articles and short stories in Greek as well as in English.

After working as an iron worker, train laborer, taxi driver, and stock broker, he now lives in White Rock where he spends his time writing, gardening, and travelling.

Towards the end of 2006 he founded Libros Libertad, an unorthodox and independent publishing company in Surrey, British Columbia with the goal of publishing literary books for the readers of literary books.