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Odysseas Elytis, pen-name for Odysseas Alepoudelis, was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1911
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His family moved to Athens where he studied law. Later he broke off his studies and devoted himself to his literary and artistic interests
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He published his first poems in the magazine 'Nea Grammata
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Axion Esti is recognised as Elytis's greatest work and it is translated into several languages.
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'Axion Esti' was awarded the National Prize in Poetry
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'Axion Esti' was set to music by Mikis Theodorakis.
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He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Poetry in1979
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Odysseas Elytis died in Athens on March 18, 1996.
