Awards & Winners

George Seferis

Date of Birth 13-March-1900
Place of Birth Urla
(Turkey)
Nationality Greece, Ottoman Empire
Also know as Giorgos Seferis, Γιώργος Σεφέρης, Seferis, Giorgos, Yiorgos Seferis, Geōrgios Seferiádēs, Γεώργιος Σεφεριάδης
Profession Poet, Diplomat
Giorgos or George Seferis, the pen name of Georgios Seferiades, was a Greek poet-diplomat. He was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate. He was a career diplomat in the Greek Foreign Service, culminating in his appointment as Ambassador to the UK, a post which he held from 1957 to 1962.

Awards by George Seferis

Check all the awards nominated and won by George Seferis.

1963


Nobel Prize in Literature
(for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture)