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[Cap]

yes, he was born and bred in Nicosia.

Reuters link:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69A1NE20101011

[kurupetos]

Greek Cypriot not Britishit Cypriot.

http://www.kathimerini.com.cy/index.php ... rtid=29374

[wyoming cowboy]

yes, he was born and bred in Nicosia.

Reuters link:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69A1NE20101011

i heard he is a pitsilos

[Cap]

yes, he was born and bred in Nicosia.

Reuters link:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69A1NE20101011

i heard he is a pitsilos

The news this morning mentioned Nicosia. Is Pitsilia in the Nicosia district maybe?

[Cap]

Official site.
Fkn assh**es spelled Cyprus wrong

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/econ ... rides.html

[kurupetos]

yes, he was born and bred in Nicosia.

Reuters link:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69A1NE20101011

i heard he is a pitsilos

The news this morning mentioned Nicosia. Is Pitsilia in the Nicosia district maybe?

Pitsilia is not a village, but an area that covers a group of villages between the districts of Limassol & Nicosia.

[lola-tulip]

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

[SKI-preo]

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?

[lola-tulip]

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

[Gasman]

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?