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Also Known As Odysseas Elytēs • Odysseus Alepoudhelis
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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