| Giorgos Seferis  AKA Giorgios Stylianou Seferiades
Born: 13-Mar-1900
Birthplace: Smyrna, Turkey
Died: 20-Sep-1971
Location of death: Athens, Greece
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, First Cemetery, Athens, Greece
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet, Diplomat Nationality: Greece
Executive summary: Imerolóyion katastrómatos Accompanied the Greek government-in-exile during World War II. Father: Stelios Seferiadis (lawyer)
Wife: Maria Zannou (m. 10-Apr-1941)
High School: First Classical Gymnasium (1917)
University: Law, Sorbonne (1918-24)
Nobel Prize for Literature 1963
Greek Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1957-62)
Author of books:
I strofí (1931, poems, trans. The Turning Point)
I stérna (1932, poem, The Cistern)
Mithistórima (1935, poems, Mythical Story)
Ghymnopedhia (1935, poems)
Imerolóyion katastrómatos I (1940, poems, Logbook)
Tetrádhio yimnasmáton (1940, poems, Exercise Book)
Dhokimes (1944, essays, expanded 1961, On the Greek Style)
Imerolóyion katastrómatos II (1945, poems, Logbook II)
Kíkhli (1947, poems, Thrush)
Poiímata 1924-46 (1950, anthology)
Imerolóyion katastrómatos III (1955, poems, republished as Cyprus)
Delphi (1963, poems)
Antigrafes (1965, translations)
Tria kryfa piimata (1966, poems, Three Selected Poems)
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