About Odysseas Elytis
Odysseas Elytis was a Greek poet, man of letters, essayist and translator, regarded as the definitive exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. He is one of the most praised poets of the second half of the twentieth century, with his Axion Esti "regarded as a monument of contemporary poetry". In 1979, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1935, Elytis published his first poem in the journal New Letters (Νέα Γράμματα) at the prompting of such friends as George Seferis. Elytis was simultaneously awarded the First National Prize for poetry for his work "Axion Esti". While in bed recuperating, he voraciously read all the Greek poetry he could and in this year discovered Cavafy.
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