The episode focuses on Elytis’s life and development as a poet. It traces his childhood and youth, his early literary explorations and association with the Generation of the ’30s, his experience of war, the emergence of his distinctive poetic voice, and the international recognition that culminated in the 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature. His poems set to music bring to life key moments in his life and work, in which light, the sun, the sea, the Aegean, and the natural landscape of Greece are recurring presences.
Produced and presented by Stavroula Karali
Sound engineer: Giorgos Kostopoulos