“Reference to Andreas Embirikos”
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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.
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culture · Greek poet and art critic · translator · poet · art critic · writer · librettist · also Odysseas Elytis, Odysseas Elytes, Odisseas Elitis, Elytis
Born 2 November 1911 · Died 18 March 1996 · Q160478
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1996· 1 entry
Died 1996-03-18.
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1984· 1 entry
Without the drawings, which are deposited separately in the archives of the American School of Classical Studies along with the original manuscripts of the initial translations of Sappho
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1982· 1 entry
“Three Poems under a Flag of Convenience”
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University (1980).
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1979· 2 entries
Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1979).
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Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
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1977· 1 entry
Two years after the death of his friend, Elytis wrote a tribute book to Embirikos from within the commonalities that founded their ideas, aptly titled "Reference to Andreas Embirikos" and originally published by Tram pub
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1974· 1 entry
“(Offering) My Cards To Sight”
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1972· 2 entries
“The Light Tree And The Fourteenth Beauty”
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Moved to Skoufa 23 to a fifth floor apartment, his final residence in Athens before he died
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1967· 1 entry
Elytis travelled to Egypt, visiting Alexandria, Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan
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1965· 3 entries
Was also bestowed with the Phoenix Cross, the highest honour of the Greek nation
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With his friend Yiorgos Theotokas on the invitation of the Union of Bulgarian Authors; it would be their final journey together as Theotokas would die in October 1966
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Completed the essays that would comprise the book The Open Papers and that summer visited the Greek islands yet again
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1964· 1 entry
The inaugural performance of the oratorio to the poetry of the Axion Esti as set to music by Mikis Theodorakis was held
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1962· 1 entry
With Andreas Embirikos and Yiorgos Theotokas (1905–1966) through the Soviet Union to Odessa Moscow and Leningrad
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1961· 1 entry
Upon an invitation of the State Department, he traveled through the US, from March until June, to New York, Washington, New Orleans, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Buffalo and Chicago
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1960· 3 entries
“Six Plus One Remorses For The Sky”
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Was awarded the First State Poetry Prize, in 1965 the Order of the Phoenix and in 1975 he was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa in the Faculty of Philosophy at Thessaloniki University and received the Honorary Citizens
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His older brother Constantine (1905–1960) died, followed by his mother, Maria Vrana Alepoudelis
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1948· 1 entry
Was the representative of Greece at the International Meetings of Geneva, in 1949 at the Founding Congress of the International Art Critics Union in Paris, and in 1962 at the Incontro Romano della Cultura in Rome
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1946· 1 entry
“An Heroic And Funeral Chant For The Lieutenant Lost In Albania”
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1941· 1 entry
Contracted an acute case of typhus abdominalis and was transferred to the Ioanina Hospital to the pathology unit for officers
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1939· 1 entry
With the publication of Elytis' first book of poetry entitled "Orientations"
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1935· 2 entries
Was in November, which was the 11th issue, and with his pseudonym Elytis established himself therein
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Elytis published his first poem in the journal New Letters (Νέα Γράμματα) at the prompting of such friends as George Seferis
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1930· 1 entry
And his family moved to Moschonision 14B
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1929· 1 entry
Elytis took a sabbatical between high school and university and decided secretly that he must only become a poet
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1928· 1 entry
Graduated from high school and successfully passed the competitive entrance exams for the Law School at the University of Athens
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1927· 1 entry
Worn out with overtiredness, Odysseas was diagnosed with tuberculosis
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1918· 1 entry
His older sister and firstborn, Myrsine (1898–1918), died of the Spanish influenza
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1914· 1 entry
The Alepoudelis family moved to Athens (at Solonos 98B), where his father re-situated the soap factory in Piraeus
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1911· 1 entry
Born 1911-11-02.
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