George Seferis

George Seferis, whose civil-registry name was Yeóryios Seferiádis, was born on 13 March 1900 in Vourla, near Smyrna, a world he lost at the age of twenty-two with the defeat in Asia Minor. He studied law in Paris, returned to Athens in 1925 and entered the diplomatic service, which took him to England and Albania, then, with the government in exile, to Crete, Egypt and South Africa, before Ankara and the embassy in London. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1963, the first for Greece, he condemned the dictatorship of the colonels on the BBC on 28 March 1969. He died on 20 September 1971, and his funeral turned into a demonstration.

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