Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Elytis, Odysseas, 1911-1996, poet, essayist and translator
Description area
Dates of existence
1911-1996
History
Odysseas Elytis (1911 – 1996) was regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. In 1979 the Nobel Prize in Literature was bestowed on him.