Konstantinos Tzavellas was born in Agia Varvara, Nonakris, Akrata, in 1938. He finished primary school, half in Varvara, where he even skipped a grade due to the Civil War, in some rough exams, and the other half in Paralia of Akrata, where his family found themselves hunted in 1947 -October 26- by the newly formed D.S.E. (The Second Insurgent) of Nikos Zachariadis and his group.
There, after successfully passing the exams, he entered the Akrata High School, from which he graduated in 1955 with a very satisfactory grade.
Suddenly, an invitation came to go to Australia to be near his siblings, Vasilis and Katina, and his uncle, Sotiris Theodosiadis (Sam Thomson), his mother's brother.
Their father was Fotios G. Tzavellas who had come to Varvara as a son-in-law from Syvista of Feneos to marry their mother Panagiota Theodosiadi, an only child and orphan in Varvara... In Australia, as was natural, the landing was truly uneventful. Two main factors were the collapse of his health due to the climate and the unknown language. The asthma he had worsened due to the humid climate and many allergic factors. These facts of the time created many difficulties for the New Immigrants, especially those who did not know the English Language. A huge difficulty was also that he was unfortunately declared in the official documents under the name Vellas, and only after two years of struggle did he manage to get his full name back: Tzavellas. So, by force of circumstances, he tried to survive and adapt to the new realities and find his footing without making any compromises to his feelings and beliefs that were always full of Greece...
He quickly married a genuine Greek girl and they started a beautiful family with two sons, without putting aside the letters he loved so much and without forgetting his many worries.
He was always in constant contact with current events and the progress of Hellenism, which he had begun to serve from his first steps in Australia. Specifically, in 1957, a year and a half after his arrival, he became a member and supporter of the newly formed major Hellenism football team, Panhellenic, which soon became the great love of Sydney's Neohellenism and experienced great glory in the stadiums of Sydney in the late 1950s and until 1970.
At the same time, he was looking everywhere for the blue and white, starting with the Greek newspapers and of course the books and Greek magazines. He immediately found the offices of the "Panhellenic Herald" of this great Greek newspaper and immediately met the late old man Grivas, the publisher and owner, with whom he maintained a very friendly relationship since then. He met all the employees there and at the same time he became acquainted with the other Greek newspaper "To Ethniki Vima", in which he almost got a job as a journalist, something that did not work out... A little further up from the Herald he found the shop of the "Salapatas" brothers. It was near the offices of the "Herald", on Elizabeth Street, on the ground floor of the Greek Club building. This shop was the trademark of the Greek community. It was the center of Greek books and had everything to do with Hellenism. Newspapers from Greece, magazines and a wide variety of gifts that spoke of Hellenism. He created very good relations with both Salapatas brothers and in fact, many times Dimitris gave him free unsold newspapers from Athens and Patras.
Of course, he became a member of the Greek Club and experienced firsthand the tremendous efforts of the late Yannis Kouvellis to make it the great jewel of the Greeks of Sydney...
All of this was from the beginning the great remedy for the tyrannical misery of being abroad.
He had now met all the journalists of the time, some of whom are even now at the forefront of information and the effort to preserve and keep the Greek language alive...
He remembers with nostalgia the late Angelos Kourlios, whom he met immediately after he came from Italy to the "Kirykas" and who reformed him.
They became friends, and when Angelos Kourlios was the publisher of the magazine "Tachydromos", Kostas Tzavellas published three or four of his articles. They remained friends until his untimely death.
When Grivas died, after a short period of searching, "Kirykas" was purchased by a passionate Greek of the Diaspora, the late Thodoros Skalkos, who became the great successor of the newspaper, who over time raised it to enviable heights.
Dinos Tzavellas met Skalkos and they remained friends until the end.
But he had already begun to serve his dream, which was writing, and which had a tradition from the desks of Akrata High School, when from the 7th grade his exhibitions and his speeches at National Holidays had begun to be awarded...
So he collaborated with all the publications: "Kiryka",
"Vima", "Nea Patrida", "Tachidromou" and "Kosmos". He has published a multitude of articles in the newspaper "O Kosmos".
He became a member of the Greek Writers' Association [EELKA]. He collaborated with the magazine "Omorfos Kosmos" by Andri Mavrakis for over three years. At the same time, he published his first book "The Pensions of Shame", a pioneering blend of theatrical speech, short story and documentary about a bitter and ugly page of Hellenism in Sydney. He is a lifelong member of the Canterbury 0-lympic football team, which he founded in 1964 with four other friends and his brother Vasilis. He is honorary president of the AEK Sydney Fans' Association, which he founded with some of his friends in 1996.
He always tried to highlight all the wronged Greek children of Sydney in football, through Canterbury, of which he was the General Leader for many years, and through a Nationalities Cup that he founded with a friend from Chile, they managed to bring 32 sister countries to the field. Then came the Hungarian-Jewish tycoon Frank Lowy who erased all the National names throughout Australia. Somewhere there he began to realize his dream of writing. He published the book “The Pensions” and was followed by “The Answers” ​​and “He Who Sows the Winds, Reaps the Storms” which were published in the Greek-speaking press.
Shortly before the Prespa Agreement, he published a Study-Research entitled “In the Name of Macedonia” which created a great sensation and was also read in Greece. However, he had long since begun to seek information about the events of the Civil War. For this purpose, he made many trips to Greece, recorded events from personal testimonies and all this research of years takes shape with the book “The Weeping Fir Trees”, the old childhood and in many cases Family dream, which is tied to an era of Greece, bloodied and still seeking redemption.