Sixty years ago…

Sixty years ago, on October 24, 1963, a telegram from the Swedish Academy announced a major event: the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Yórgos Séféris—the pen name of the poet Yórgos Seferiádis (1900-1971), who was also a diplomat. The great Greek poet received the prize “for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture,” according to the Stockholm-based Academy. This first Nobel Prize for a Greek, awarded in 1963, holds one of the most illustrious places in the nation’s literature..