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Also Known As Odysseus Alepoudhelis • Odysseas Elytēs
Born November 2, 1911 • Heraklion • Greece
Died March 18, 1996 (aged 84) • Athens • Greece
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1979)
Notable Works “The Axion Esti”

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Irish author and poet
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Chilean poet
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Irish poet
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West Indian poet
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Frédéric Mistral
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