[3] As a teenager he ran away from school in order to join the Epirus revolt of 1878, and participated in the guerilla operations near Sarandë.

[1] In December 1889 he won the literary competition of the Athenian newspaper Acropolis, with his countryside tale Pastoral new year.

[4] When the Balkan Wars (1912–1913) ended and most of Epirus became part of Greece, he moved to Ioannina and published a newspaper named Ελευθερία ("Freedom").

[1] Christovasilis was a collector of rural and folk material and one of the main representatives of Greek pastoral literature of that era.

[1] Additionally, in 1901 he published the Tales of the Mountain and the Valley, which earned him another literary prize, promulgated by the supporter of the Demotic language, Ioannis Psycharis.