George Seferis

George Seferis was a Greek diplomat, poet and writer, and the first Greek winner of the Nobel Prize in 1963.

He is one of the most important Greek poets with rich works and one of only Greek Nobel laureate literature together with Odysseas Elytis.

In 1963, George Seferis, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

As argued, the choice Seferis, there was an opportunity to attribute a wonderful tribute in modern Greece, a linguistic area that waited too long for a prize-giving at this level.

Rafaela Zioti