biography
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Seferiades, George
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also called Giorgios or George Seferis
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pronunciation:
[seferyahdeez]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1900–71)
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| biography:
| Poet and diplomat, born in Izmir (formerly Smyrna), W Turkey. He studied at Athens and the Sorbonne, and served as ambassador to the Lebanon (1953–7) and the UK (1957–62). He wrote lyrical poetry, collected in The Turning Point (1931), Mythistorema (1935), and others, and translated T S Eliot's The Waste Land into Greek. The most distinguished Greek poet of the 1930s, he introduced symbolism into modern literature, and in 1963 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. |
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