337. Italiani di seconda e terza generazione > conversazione con Michele Giacon

Carla Rotondo talks to Michael Giacon about his kiwi-Italian upbringing and identity. Michael is a poet, performer and former senior lecturer. He was born in Auckland in the ’50s in a large Italian-Pākehā family. His father Luigi was from Montebelluna in Veneto and his mother Mary was from Napier, where they met in the aftermath of the earthquake. His father arrived in NZ in 1928, aged 18 and…