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Giorgos Seferis

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Poet

The Resume

    (March 13, 1900-September 20, 1971)
    Born in Izmir, Turkey
    Birth name was Georgios Seferiades
    Poet and diplomat
    Greek ambassador to the United Kingdom (1957-62)
    Poetry collections include 'Strophe' (1931), 'Mythical Narrative' (1935), 'Book of Exercises' (1940), 'The Thrush' (1947), 'Three Secret Poems' (1966), and 'Book of Exercises II' (1970)
    Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1963)

Why he might be annoying:

    He considered becoming a monk.
    He started five novels, but only completed one.
    Despite the title, 'Three Secret Poems' contained 28 poems. (Maybe 25 of them weren't secret?)
    The main themes of his poems were 'alienation, wandering, and death.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    He opposed the 'Regime of the Colonels' military dictatorship, declaring in a radio broadcast, 'This anomaly must end.' (March 28, 1969)
    He translated the poems of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound into Greek.
    Several of his poems are quoted as epigrams in Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot.'
    A stanza from one of his poems was recited during the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympic Games in Athens (2004).

Credit: C. Fishel


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