Odysseas Elytis
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Literature — 1979for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness
- Citizenship
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Greece - Languages
- Modern Greek
- date of birth
- 11/2/1911
- place of birth
- Heraklion
- date of death
- 3/18/1996
- place of death
- Athens
- Lived
- 84 years
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- educated at
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- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- academic major: chemistry
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- work location
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- Paris
- Athens
- occupation
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- translator
- art critic
- writer
- poet
- librettist
- notable work
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- Axion Esti
- member of
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- Hellenic Authors' Society