Definition von odysseus elytis im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
or Odysseas Elyts, orig. Odysseus Alepoudhelis born Nov. 2, 1911, Iráklion, Crete died March 18, 1996, Athens, Greece Greek poet. The scion of a prosperous Cretan family, he began publishing verse influenced by French Surrealism in the 1930s. His first two collections reveal his love of the Greek landscape and the Aegean Sea. During World War II he joined the antifascist resistance and became something of a bard among young Greeks. One of his best-known poems is The Axion Esti (1959); later works include The Sovereign Sun (1971) and The Little Mariner (1986). He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979