biography
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Elytis, Odysseus
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pseudonym of Odysseus Alepoudhelis
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pronunciation:
[eleetis]
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| lived:
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. He studied at Athens University and at the Sorbonne, Paris, and worked in broadcasting and as a critic of art and literature. His pseudonym is said to combine the three most prevalent themes in his work: Greece, hope, and freedom. Deeply influenced by the Surrealists, he began publishing verse in the 1930s. His best-known work is To axion esti (1959, The Axion Esti). In 1979 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. |
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