Odysseas Elytis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Odysseas Elytis

Greek poet and art critic

Date of Birth: 02-Nov-1911

Place of Birth: Heraklion, Decentralized Administration of Crete, Greece

Date of Death: 18-Mar-1996

Profession: writer, poet, translator, art critic

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Odysseus Elytis (; Greek: ?d?ss?a? ???t?? [oði'seas e'litis], pen name of Odysseus Alepoudellis, Greek: ?d?ss?a? ??ep??d?????; 2 November 1911 – 18 March 1996) was regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world.
In 1979 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.