Nobel laureate: Odysseus Elytis
Born: 1911-11-02, Iráklion, Crete (now Greece)
Died: 1996-03-18, Athens, Greece
Gender: male
Prizes:
year: 1979
category: literature
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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"