Georges Séféris
Georges Séféris or Giorgos Séféris (Γιώργος Σεφέρης) (born the March 13rd 1900 with Smyrna, current the İzmir, is the February 29th 1900 in the Calendrier Julien, into force in the Ottoman Empire at the time; died the September 20th 1971 in Athens) is the pseudonym of the Greek poet Giorgos Seferiadis .
Its life
His/her father, professor of university is regarded as the best translator of Lord Byron. Born in 1900 in Smyrna, Séféris followed its family to Athens after the fall of Smyrna in front of the Othoman invasion. Séféris finished its university in Athens, then continued its studies of right and literature with Paris. In spite of its interest for philology and art, it engaged in the diplomatic career and was exiled with the free Greek government to escape the occupation in 1941. It was sent in various countries during the Second world war, served its fatherland in Crete, in Cairo, in South Africa, Turkey and in the Middle East. After having, six years during, be ambassador with London, it took its retirement in 1962 to go back to Athens and to be devoted to it entirely to its literary work. One year later, in 1963, it accepted the Nobel Prize of literature. Séféris was influenced much by Constantin Cavafy, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.
Its work
He wrote in vernacular language, the spoken language by the Greeks well-read men and tried to combine his own experiences with the history and mythology. One of its independent sources of inspiration was the Odyssey of Homère in particular to show how the human personality did not change through the centuries.
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