He was born in Sydney, Australia, attended Fort Street High School, studied English literature at the University of New South Wales, and acquired a Dip.
Of that novel he has said: I wanted to show the extraordinary and positive relationships that were formed between Greeks and Aussies at a time of profound crisis.
For humble, frightened village people an awakening and relief—they could scarcely believe that complete strangers would come from across the world to try to protect them from the Nazi tyrants.
For Aussie boys, an awareness of a culture that had given birth to the very things they were fighting for—freedom and democracy.
Angelo Loukakis was a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council (1985–87), founding Chair of the NSW Writers' Centre (1991), and Executive Director of the Australian Society of Authors (2010–16).