Giorgos Seferis is remembered for writing that changed what came after it.
The record lists Giorgos Seferis as Greek poet and diplomat (1900-1971).
Giorgos Seferis was born in 1900. His recorded nationality is Greece.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, literary form itself came under argument, and the certainties of the realist novel were dismantled.
He worked as poet, translator and writer.
The writing is recorded in French and English.
Reputation in letters is unusually volatile: writers are forgotten for a generation and then recovered by one.
The honours record reads: Nobel Prize in Literature (1963).
That the work was written from Greece matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Giorgos Seferis died in 1971, aged 71. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
Achievements
- Nobel Prize in Literature — 1963
