Biography
Timoshenko Aslanides an Australian poet.
Biography
Born in Sydney to John Paul Aslanides and Olive Emma Browne, Timoshenko Aslanides studied music at the University of Sydney and economics at The Australian National University. He began writing poetry after he moved to Canberra in 1972. His first book of poems, The Greek Connection, was awarded the British Commonwealth Poetry Prize for 1978 for the best first book of poetry in English published the previous year in all the countries of the British Commonwealth, excluding England; he was the first Australian to win this prize.
Timoshenko Aslanides has worked as a full-time, professional poet since July 1985, when he resigned from the Australian Public Service. ..
