
He was born in Izmir, 13 March 1900, died 20 September 1971 in Athens. Of the greatest masters of modern Greek poetry Seferis, until the age of 15 lived in Urla. The son of a prominent lawyer. In addition to the poet and writer and a diplomat known side. In 1950 worked as a diplomat in Turkey Yorgo Seferis area, visit the land was born, and his feelings were transferred to various poems.
Law studies in Paris when the first verse. The first book of''Milestones''Strofi-in Greece took the criticism of the conservative sector. 1932 published the''important work''of the cistern. Stories''heroic'',''Ardıç bird between''important books. In 1963 received the Nobel Prize in Literature.