Odysseas Elytis was a Greek poet, man of letters, essayist and translator, regarded as the definitive exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world ...

Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis was born Odysseus Alepoudelis, in the city of Heraklion, on the island of Crete, on November 2, 1911.

Odysseus Elytis was born in 1911 on the Greek island of Crete. The family later moved to Athens. After finishing his secondary school studies there, Elytis ...

4 apr 2024 · Odysseus Elytis was a Greek poet and winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature. Born the scion of a prosperous family from Lesbos, ...

Odysseus Elytis, pen-name for Odysseus Alepoudhiéis, was born in 1911 at Herakleion in Crete. The family, which originally came from Lesbos, moved in 1914 to ...

This luminous space that Elytis was to examine for 60 years was neither a country nor even a place as such. It was a divine moment, a revelation, an epiphany, ...

Renowned for their astonishing lyricism and profound optimism, Elytis's poems capture the natural wonders of Greece and give voice to the contemporary Greek―and ...

18 mar 1996 · ATHENS -- Odysseus Elytis, 84, a Nobel Prize-winning poet known for his sensuous lyrics about the Greek islands and the nation's turbulent ...

I walk in thorns in the dark.

£12.99 ... Odysseus Elytis (1911-96) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1979. With Seferis and the 'Generation of the Thirties', he introduced French Surrealism ...