Tony maniaty biography

After living and working in Australia, Britain, France, the United States, Greece and Denmark, and traveling through more than thirty countries, my outlook is global.

These days I move between Paris and Sydney. My father was a Greek from Asia Minor and an early immigrant to Australia, my mother's ancestry was Anglo-Saxon, and my sons have Latvian and Irish blood as well.

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Cultural diversity -  sharing ideas, knowledge and experiences with others - is what makes life worth living. 

To date I've published five books. (Seeing my first novel with the Penguin logo was special.) The main themes of my work arise largely from personal experiences, my interactions with society, as well as my time as a correspondent: exploring the impacts of war, upheaval, and migration.

I'm currently working on a novel about refugees and cultural displacement, and recently published a photo-book documenting the impact on Covid-19 on life in Paris. My blog covers a range o