Odysseas Elytis

Odysseas Elytis, the Nobel Prize in Literature 1979

“For 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”

Odysseas Elytis is the pen name of Odysseas Alepoudelis born in Heraklion, Crete in 1911.

Read more about Odysseas Elytis:

• The award of the Nobel Prize to Odysseas Elytis
• Poems of Odysseas Elytis