Odysseas Elytis

Odysseas Alepoudelis, who took the name Elytis, was born in Heraklion on 2 November 1911 into an old family from Lesbos; he attended the law faculty in Athens and published his first verses in 1935 in the Nea Grammata. Mobilised in 1940, he served as a second lieutenant on the front line. He twice directed the programmes of the national radio, lived in Paris from 1948 to 1952 and again from 1969 to 1972, translated Rimbaud and the Surrealists, and received the Nobel Prize in 1979. He died in Athens on 18 March 1996, aged eighty-four.

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• PoetryThe Axion EstiΆξιον ΕστίOdysseas Elytis · 1959Literature