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291:. While he was there, in September 1922, Smyrna/Izmir was taken by the Turkish Army after a two-year Greek military campaign on Anatolian soil. Many Greeks, including Seferis's family, fled from Asia Minor. Seferis would not visit Smyrna again until 1950; the sense of being an exile from his childhood home would inform much of Seferis's poetry, showing itself particularly in his interest in the story of
339:(1953–1956), and was Royal Greek Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1961, the last post before his retirement in Athens. Seferis received many honours and prizes, among them honorary doctoral degrees from the universities of Cambridge (1960), Oxford (1964), Thessaloniki (1964), and Princeton (1965).
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took power in Greece after a coup d'état. After two years marked by widespread censorship, political detentions and torture, Seferis took a stand against the regime. On March 28, 1969, he made a statement on the BBC World
Service, with copies simultaneously distributed to every newspaper in Athens.
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the following year. This was the beginning of a long and successful diplomatic career, during which he held posts in England (1931–1934) and
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November 1953. He immediately fell in love with the island, partly because of its resemblance, in its landscape, the mixture of populations, and in its traditions, to his childhood summer home in Skala (Urla). His book of poems
389:, investing a great deal of personal effort and emotion. This was one of the few areas in his life in which he allowed the personal and the political to mix. Seferis described his political principles as "
495:. He died in Athens, on September 20, 1971. The cause of death was reported to be pneumonia, aggravated by a stroke he had suffered after undergoing surgery for a bleeding ulcer about two months earlier.
315:(1936–1938). He married Maria Zannou ('Maro') on April 10, 1941 on the eve of the German invasion of Greece. During the Second World War, Seferis accompanied the Free Greek Government in exile to
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has decreed that Cyprus shall be his home) made clear the optimistic sense of homecoming
Seferis felt on discovering the island. Seferis changed the title in the 1959 edition of his poems.
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for
Literature "for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture." Seferis was nominated in total four times for the Nobel Prize.
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Sigmatropic released "16 Haiku & Other Stories," an album dedicated to and lyrically derived from Seferis's work. Vocalists included recording artists
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both nominated in 1962 and it was the 1963 nomination again by Eyvind
Johnson that won him the prize. Seferis was the first Greek to receive the prize (followed later by
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was inspired by the island, and mostly written there–bringing to an end a period of six or seven years in which
Seferis had not produced any poetry. Its original title
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over its international status. Over the next few years, Seferis made use of his position in the diplomatic service to strive towards a resolution of the
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He was a career diplomat in the Greek
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On the Greek Style: Selected Essays on Poetry and Hellenism
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1042:"The Diaries of George Seferis as a Revelation of His Art"
1343:. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2008-06-26.
1272:"Το πάντα επίκαιρο διάγγελμα του Σεφέρη κατά της χούντας"
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451:. The other five finalists for the prize that year were
1139:"George Seferis' "Thrush" and the Poetry of Ezra Pound"
1293:"George Seferis Dies at 71; Poet W on '63 Nobel Prize"
1184:"Nobel Prize in Literature 1963 - Presentation Speech"
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George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel – A Biography
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966:and Phillip Sherrard, in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.),
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260:, Turkey). His father, Stelios Seferiadis, was a
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1368:(19th ed.). Αθήνα: Ίκαρος. pp. 353–55.
1470:including the Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1963
1429:. Minneapolis, Minn.: North Central Publishing.
545:of Athens, still stands today at Agras Street.
479:In 1967 the repressive nationalist, right-wing
3288:Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
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1092:"T. S. Eliot and the Poetry of George Seferis"
819:) (9 vols., published posthumously, 1975–2019)
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1425:Tsatsos, Ioanna, Demos Jean (trans.) (1982).
594:was featured in the Opening Ceremony of the
3283:Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to Greece
3263:Ambassadors of Greece to the United Kingdom
972:No. 12, Spring 1983, pp. 47 & 48,
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602:I woke with this marble head in my hands;
295:. Seferis was also greatly influenced by
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1170:George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel
358:Cyprus, where it was ordained for me…
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1472:Some Notes on Modern Greek Tradition
1399:. New Haven: Yale University Press.
279:over the formal, official language (
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1013:"The Nobel Prize - Giorgos Seferis"
888:A Poet's Journal: Days of 1945–1951
217:. He was one of the most important
16:Greek poet and diplomat (1900–1971)
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1412:Seferis and Elytis as Translators.
1382:"Introduction to T. S. Eliot," in
1224:"Giorgos Seferis - Banquet Speech"
928:, trans. by Susan Matthias (2007).
854:George Seferis's 'On a Winter Ray'
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958:Black, David, (1983), review of
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1410:Loulakaki-Moore, Irene (2010).
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749:Ημερολόγιο Καταστρώματος ΙΙΙ
502:' setting of Seferis's poem
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354:Imerologio Katastromatos III
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1440:Edmund Keeley (Fall 1970).
1002:, Peter Lang, 2007, p. 160.
999:Peripheral (Post) Modernity
926:Six Nights on the Acropolis
823:Six Nights on the Acropolis
725:Ημερολόγιο Καταστρώματος ΙΙ
319:, Egypt, South Africa, and
221:of the 20th century, and a
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1168:Beaton, Roderick (2003).
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1040:Rexine, John E. (1987).
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3238:People from Urla, Izmir
1090:Keeley, Edmund (1956).
773:Τετράδιο Γυμνασμάτων II
638:, which is inspired by
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423:nominated him in 1955,
272:and a supporter of the
3258:Generation of the '30s
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119:Generation of the '30s
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2294:Miguel Ángel Asturias
1967:Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1698:Verner von Heidenstam
1553:Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
857:Cordite Poetry Review
840:Βαρνάβας Καλοστέφανος
835:Varnavas Kalostefanos
561:Yorgos Seferis Sokagi
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443:in the continuity of
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1945:Roger Martin du Gard
1414:Oxford: Peter Lang.
1190:on November 12, 2005
848:English translations
768:Book of Exercises ΙΙ
701:Τετράδιο Γυμνασμάτων
567:in the early 1920s.
543:Panathinaiko Stadium
537:district of central
266:University of Athens
236:Seferis was born in
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2190:Salvatore Quasimodo
1876:Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1810:George Bernard Shaw
1667:Rabindranath Tagore
1645:Maurice Maeterlinck
1385:Modernism/modernity
1252:. Nobel Prize. 2013
761:Τρία Κρυφά Ποιήματα
586:. Seferis's famous
541:, just next to the
207:Georgios Seferiadis
205:), the pen name of
105:University of Paris
44:Georgios Seferiadis
3253:Modern Greek poets
3130:Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
2793:Mario Vargas Llosa
2771:J. M. G. Le Clézio
2628:Wisława Szymborska
2408:Vicente Aleixandre
2279:Shmuel Yosef Agnon
2157:Juan Ramón Jiménez
2025:Johannes V. Jensen
1713:Henrik Pontoppidan
1579:Henryk Sienkiewicz
1464:on Nobelprize.org
1364:Σεφέρης, Γιώργος.
1297:The New York Times
1230:on January 8, 2009
1157:– via JSTOR.
862:Three Secret Poems
756:Three Secret Poems
684:Mythical narrative
576:Alejandro Escovedo
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66:September 20, 1971
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2804:Tomas Tranströmer
2305:Yasunari Kawabata
2268:Mikhail Sholokhov
2124:Winston Churchill
1799:Władysław Reymont
1777:Jacinto Benavente
1656:Gerhart Hauptmann
1448:. Fall 1970 (50).
1350:978-0-19-335987-1
1212:. 3 January 2024.
947:978-960-7120-37-3
696:Book of Exercises
565:Greco-Turkish War
500:Mikis Theodorakis
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