Angelos Sikelianos
Poet, Author
1884 – 1951
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Who was Angelos Sikelianos?
Angelos Sikelianos was a Greek lyric poet and playwright. He wrote on national history, religious symbolism, and universal harmony in poems such as The Light-Shadowed, Prologue to Life, Mother of God, and Delphic Utterance. His plays include Sibylla, Daedalus in Crete, Christ in Rome, The Death of Digenis, and Asklepius. He was the first twentieth-century Greek poet nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature
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- Born
- Mar 28, 1884
Lefkada - Also known as
- Сикелианос, Ангелос
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Eva Palmer-Sikelianos
(1907/09/09 - 1934) - Anna Karamani
( - 1951/06/19)
- Eva Palmer-Sikelianos
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Greeks
- Nationality
- Greece
- Profession
- Education
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Law
(1900 - )
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Died
- Jun 19, 1951
Athens
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on July 23, 2013
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