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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1979

"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"
Odysseus Elytis
Odysseus Elytis
(pen-name of Odysseus Alepoudhelis)
Greece
b. 1911
d. 1996
 
 
 
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