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URGENT, ELYTHS DIED TODAY !!!!
From: Macedonian Press Agency <mpa@philippos.mpa.gr>
THE GREEK POET AND NOBEL PRIZE WINNER ODYSSEAS ELYTIS DIED TODAY
Athens 18 March (M.P.A.)
Greek poet Odysseas Elytis winner of the 1979 Nobel prize for
literature died a short while ago at the age of 85. He was one of
the most important contemporary European writers and one of the
leading representatives of surrealism in Greece.
The 1979 Nobel prize for literature was awarded to him for
his work "Axion Esti".
He was born in 1911 in the city of Iraklion in the southern
Aegean island of Crete and he studied Law in the University of
Athens.
Elytis began writing poetry in 1935 and since then he never
stopped while he also wrote treatises and translated in greek some
of the best works of foreign literature. In his poems is noticed a
deep sense of life, and a strength that are being manifested
through the continuous presentation of vague pictures connected
with eachother through logical consequence. One of his recent
works was "Maria Nefeli" (1978).
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