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[CBBB]

Are you referring to Seferis as 'Cypriot' or 'Greek'?. He was apparently 52 years old before he even 'visited' Cyprus.

Seferis was born in Urla near Smyrna in Asia Minor (now İzmir, Turkey).

When he was 14 his family moved to Athens, where Seferis completed his secondary school education. He continued his studies in Paris from 1918 to 1925, studying law at the Sorbonne. While he was there, in September 1922, Smyrna was occupied by the Turks and its Greek population, including Seferis' family, fled. Seferis would not visit Smyrna again until 1950; the sense of being an exile from his childhood home would inform much of Seferis' poetry, showing itself particularly in his interest in the story of Odysseus.

He was in exile with the Greek government in Egypt and South Africa during the Second World War.

So - a Greek born in Turkey? Lived all over and from the age of 52 decided Cyprus was his 'spiritual' home?

When I win a Nobel prize, I want my 'spiritual' home' as my nationality.

[Oracle]

Who knew, they award Nobel Prizes for studying the jobless of Britain!


Christopher Antoniou Pissarides, "Unemployment and Vacancies in Britain." Economic Policy, 1(3), pp. 499–559.




Well done Prof. Pissarides.

[Cap]

Please guys refrain from poisoning this thread.

[lola-tulip]

Let us go back to this, before the interfering post.

Three Nobel prizes in less than 50 years for a population of less than 10 million under extreme suffering is very good.

what were the other Nobel prizes for?

Both were for for Literature. Giorgos Seferis in 1963 and Odysseus Elytis in 1979.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PxUdQAJkt8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFZsRZ8PU24

Prizes for beautiful words and civilised progress.

We have a lot of good and talented people in our fold.

[Bananiot]

lola-tulip, quit the ridiculous insinuations about success and ethnicity. You sound more and more like Hitler. You are worse than oracle and the other right wing fascists of the forum.

Pissarides hails from Agros but like many people from Agros, he grew up in Nicosia.

It is interesting to note that in 2001 he was proposed to the Klerides government (Klerides also heralds from Agros) for the position of the Governor of the Central Bank. Party politics prevailed at the time and the job was handed to Christodoulos Christodoulou, from Avgorou, an ex Primary school teacher and a member of Akritas. The proposition came from George Vasiliou.

In 2006, Pissarides was again proposed, this time to Papadopoulos, when Christodoulou left the job. Again Pissarides was deemed not good enough to take the position.

In short, Pissarides was a lucky man. He stayed at LSE and continued his work that earned him world acclaim. Had he come to Cyprus he would have ended another party apparatchik among the many corrupt individuals that govern Cyprus.

[Oracle]

Why would an over-qualified academician request to become Governor and forfeit all his other collaborations?

In the years you quote, he was already a Member of the Cyprus Monetary Policy Committee as well as specialist Adviser to House of Commons Treasury Committee. Methinks, everyone made the right decisions and you would do well to take a leaf out of Hitler's book and be nice at least once in a while!

(I see you chose to ignore Cap's request to avoid poisoning this thread!)

[humanist]

Congratulations Mr Pissarides for your contribution to world development and benefit of all human kind

[Gregory]

lola-tulip, quit the ridiculous insinuations about success and ethnicity. You sound more and more like Hitler. You are worse than oracle and the other right wing fascists of the forum.

Pissarides hails from Agros but like many people from Agros, he grew up in Nicosia.

It is interesting to note that in 2001 he was proposed to the Klerides government (Klerides also heralds from Agros) for the position of the Governor of the Central Bank. Party politics prevailed at the time and the job was handed to Christodoulos Christodoulou, from Avgorou, an ex Primary school teacher and a member of Akritas. The proposition came from George Vasiliou.

In 2006, Pissarides was again proposed, this time to Papadopoulos, when Christodoulou left the job. Again Pissarides was deemed not good enough to take the position.

In short, Pissarides was a lucky man. He stayed at LSE and continued his work that earned him world acclaim. Had he come to Cyprus he would have ended another party apparatchik among the many corrupt individuals that govern Cyprus.

Are you insinuating that Mr Orphanides the present governor of the central bank and one of the most influential governors of the ECB who was previously the Senior Adviser to the USA Federal Reserve Bank is a party apparatchik?

[wyoming cowboy]

lola-tulip, quit the ridiculous insinuations about success and ethnicity. You sound more and more like Hitler. You are worse than oracle and the other right wing fascists of the forum.

Pissarides hails from Agros but like many people from Agros, he grew up in Nicosia.

It is interesting to note that in 2001 he was proposed to the Klerides government (Klerides also heralds from Agros) for the position of the Governor of the Central Bank. Party politics prevailed at the time and the job was handed to Christodoulos Christodoulou, from Avgorou, an ex Primary school teacher and a member of Akritas. The proposition came from George Vasiliou.

In 2006, Pissarides was again proposed, this time to Papadopoulos, when Christodoulou left the job. Again Pissarides was deemed not good enough to take the position.

In short, Pissarides was a lucky man. He stayed at LSE and continued his work that earned him world acclaim. Had he come to Cyprus he would have ended another party apparatchik among the many corrupt individuals that govern Cyprus.

Banana man on this one I will partly agree with you, Greece/Cyprus have both created many world renowned men/women, unfortunately few of them can claim Greece/Cyprus as their platform, they usually have to emigrate to blossom......

[Bananiot]

Gregory, are you insinuating that in present day Cyprus jobs (especially highly paid ones) are handed out purely on merit? Christ man, even if one wants to become a messenger one needs strong party shoulders.

I gave the facts. Christofias insisted on Orphanides and you should look at the family background of him. Oh yes, in this silly island, even ideology and party affiliation is hereditary.

Having said that, in my opinion, Orphanides is doing a good job and he seems a competent man. He managed to get Christofias mad with some of his ideas and this is a good thing.