13 Facts About George Seferis

George Seferis was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate.

George Seferis 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.

George Seferis was born in Vourla near Smyrna in Asia Minor, Ottoman Empire .

George Seferis's father, Stelios Seferiadis, was a lawyer, and later a professor at the University of Athens, as well as a poet and translator in his own right.

George Seferis was a staunch Venizelist and a supporter of the demotic Greek language over the formal, official language .

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George Seferis continued his studies in Paris from 1918 to 1925, studying law at the Sorbonne.

George Seferis returned to Athens in 1925 and was admitted to the Royal Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the following year.

George Seferis continued to serve in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and held diplomatic posts in Ankara, Turkey and London .

George Seferis was appointed minister to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq, and was Royal Greek Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1961, the last post before his retirement in Athens.

George Seferis received many honours and prizes, among them honorary doctoral degrees from the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Thessaloniki, and Princeton .

George Seferis immediately fell in love with the island, partly because of its resemblance, in its landscape, the mixture of populations, and in its traditions, to his childhood summer home in Skala .

George Seferis changed the title in the 1959 edition of his poems.

George Seferis did not live to see the end of the junta in 1974 as a direct result of Turkey's invasion of Cyprus, which had itself been prompted by the junta's attempt to overthrow Cyprus's president, Archbishop Makarios.