Odysseus Elytis
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1979.
Born: 2, Nov, 1911, Iráklion, Crete (now Greece)
Died: 18, Mar, 1996, Athens, Greece
Prize motivation: "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"
Prize share: 1/1