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Olga Hawkes

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Born

in Shanghai, China

Website

http://www.olgahawkes.co.nz

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Olga Hawkes

Genre

Biography, Nonfiction, Memoir

Influences

Multi cultural/Russian

Member Since

July 2012

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Olga Hawkes
Olga was born in Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, the daughter of Russian émigrés who had escaped from the Soviet's Bolshevik regime. As stateless refugees the thirty thousand White Russian diaspora lived a precarious existence.
In 1948 Olga, her sister and widowed mother, Sonechka, fled to the America just before Shanghai fell to the Communists.
On finishing high school in San Francisco Olga went to Europe to visit relatives. In Paris she worked as an au pair for a French family and later studied at the Sorbonne.
In 1962 Olga met and married John in Paris. He was a young doctor from New Zealand working at the American Hospital of Paris.
After completing his postgraduate medical studies overseas, John returned to New Zealand with ...more