* 1911 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, Nobel laureate ( d. 1996 )

* November 2 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* March 18 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1911 )

* Literature – Odysseas Elytis

Contemporary Greek literature is represented by many writers, poets and novelists: Dionysios Solomos, Andreas Kalvos, Angelos Sikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, Constantine P. Cavafy, Demetrius Vikelas, while George Seferis and Odysseas Elytis have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Heraklion has been the home town of some of Greece's most significant spirits, including the novelist Nikos Kazantzakis, the poet and Nobel Prize winner Odysseas Elytis and the world-famous painter Domenicos Theotokopoulos ( El Greco ).

* In 1945, Greek poet Odysseas Elytis ( Nobel Prize for Literature, 1979 ) translated and published part of García Lorca's Romancero Gitano.

His most significant and influential works are based Greek and world poetry – Epiphania ( Giorgos Seferis ), Little Kyklades ( Odysseas Elytis ), Axion Esti ( Odysseas Elytis ), Mauthausen ( Iakovos Kambanellis ), Romiossini ( Yannis Ritsos ), and Romancero Gitano ( Federico García Lorca ) – he attempted to give back to Greek music a dignity which in his perception it had lost.

# Song cycles: Epitaphios ( Yannis Ritsos ); Archipelagos ( Songs of the Islands ), Politia A & B ( Songs of the City ), Epiphania ( Giorgos Seferis, Nobel Prize 1963 ), Mikres Kyklades ( Odysseas Elytis ), Chrysoprasino Fyllo ( Golden-green leaf ), Mauthausen ( Iakovos Kambanellis ), Romiossini ( Yannis Ritsos ), Thalassina Feggaria ( Moons of the Sea )

# Oratorio: To Axion Esti ( Odysseas Elytis, Nobel Prize 1979 ), cf.

* 1960: Axion Esti ( text: Odysseas Elytis )

* 1982 – 83: Lorca, for voice, solo guitar, choir, and orchestra ( based on Romancero Gitano, text: Federico García Lorca, translated by Odysseas Elytis )

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* Odysseas Elytis ( 1911 – 1996 ), poet

* 1825 – Odysseas Androutsos, Greek soldier ( b. 1788 )

* 1987 – Odysseas Angelis, Greek officer involved in the coup of April 1967 ( b. 1912 )

* Odysseas Ioannides, 1964 – 1970.

* Odysseas Androutsos ( 1788 – 1825 ), hero of the Greek War of Independence

Moving into the twentieth century, the modern Greek literary tradition spans the work of Constantine P. Cavafy, considered a key figure of twentieth century poetry, Giorgos Seferis ( whose works and poems aimed to fuse the literature of Ancient and Modern Greece ) and Odysseas Elytis, both of whom won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

* Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, Nobel laureate ( Literature ).

Although he is very popular in Greece, with his best poems taught throughout the country, his fame is not as widespread as the great Greek poet Odysseas Elytis. He is considered by many to be the embodiment of the Greek " soul " for his romantic affiliation with the sea and its journeys and for his genuinely humane outlook.

* March 18-Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( born 1911 )

* November 2-Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet ( died 1996 )

Leading modern poets are Kostis Palamas, and Constantine P. Cavafy, as well as George Seferis, and Odysseus Elytis, winners of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1963 and 1979, respectively.

The many elements of a millennia-old tradition are reflected in Modern Greek literature, including the works of the Nobel laureates Odysseus Elytis and George Seferis.

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Odysseus Elytis

In modern times the poet Odysseus Elytis, descendant of an old family of Lesbos received the Nobel Prize.

* J. L. Austin ( 1911 – 1960 ), British philosopher

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