num_pages: 112
description: When Odysseus Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy's citation singled out The Axion Esti, first published in 1959, as 'one of twentieth-century literature's concentrated and richly faceted poems.'
language: English
title: The Axion Esti
titlecomplete: The Axion Esti
genres: Fiction, European Literature, Politics, Poetry, Greece, Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, 20th Century
ratings_count: 1043
places: Crete
publisher: Anvil Press