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Seminar by Petro Alexiou for the immigrant author Alekos Doukas

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Alekos Doukas is a largely forgotten author whose two novels, To Struggle To Youth (1953) and Under Foreign Skies (1963), both published in Melbourne, represent an attempt by a pre-war Greek immigrant to reinterpret his past experiences into a type of Greek-Australian socialist realist literature. Dr Petro Alexiou, who will deliver a seminar about A. Douka, talks to SBS Greek.


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Alekos Doukas is a largely forgotten author whose two novels, To Struggle To Youth (1953) and Under Foreign Skies (1963), both published in Melbourne, represent an attempt by a pre-war Greek immigrant to reinterpret his past experiences into a type of Greek-Australian socialist realist literature. Dr Petro Alexiou, who will deliver a seminar about A. Douka, talks to SBS Greek.


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