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Odysseas Elytis Odysseas Elytis
Odysseus Elytis Odysseas Elytis was the pseudonym of Odysseas Alepoudelis (November 2, 1911–March 18, 1996), a Greek poet. Born in Irklion, Crete to a Lesvos family, he studied law in the University of Athens but did not take his degree. He was the last of the six children of Panagiotis Alepoudelis and Maria Vrana. He moved to Athens when he was little. In 1923, he visited Italy, Switzerland and Germany. In Lausanne, the poet began to knew and recognized Eleftherios Venizelos. His main work, fourteen years in the writing but published in 1959, is Axion Esti, a poem that attempts to identify the vital elements in Greece's 3000-year history and tradition and where the Orthodox liturgy blends with the images of the sun, the sea, and the Christian element with the pagan. Other works include Anoichta Chartia = Open Papers. He spent his first summers of his live in Crete, in Mytilene and Spetses while in his winters, he spends time studying. He began his first works. He wrote at a law school in 1930 working with other Greek poets including Parafono Avlo from Kaisaros Emmanouil, Stou Glytimou to Chazi from Theodoros Doros, Strofi from Giorgos Seferis in 1931 and Poiimata = Poems from Nikitas Rantos in 1933. He becam a soldier and went to Corfu in 1938 at Scholi Efedron Axiomatikon. He later wrote with Nikos Gkatsos and Giorgos Seferis which was founded in Kor. During the Second World War he served as a Lieutenant in the underground resistance. Shortly after the war in 1948 he viisted Switzerland and visited Paris and studied there in the Sorbonne and also became a professor in philosophy, before returning to Greece. He worked in the newspaper company, the Aggloelliniki Epitheorisi, Eleftheria, ''Kathimerini until 1948. From the end of 1950 to May 1951, he visited England and worked with the BBC. He visited Spain and Italy at the end of 1951. He met Andr Breton, Paul Eluard, P. Reverdy, Albert Camus, T. Tzara, P.J. Jouve, G. Ungaretti and R. Char. In 1961, he visited North America. He also visited Rome in 1962. He visited other countries as well including France in 1966 and Egypt in 1967 and drew, he even translated some works. In the spring of 1969, he visited Paris. Elytis later visited Cyprus in 1970. He came back to Greece in 1971. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979. Selected works in English translation - Collected Poems (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)
- (1998 - includes poems not in the Collected)
Elytis, Odysseas Elytis, Odysseas Elytis, Odysseas
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