Editing Giorgos Seferis (section)

===Nobel Prize===
{{main|1963 Nobel Prize in Literature}}
[[Image:Giorgos Seferis 1963.jpg|right|thumb|George Seferis in 1963]]
In 1963, Seferis was awarded the [[Nobel Prize]] for Literature "for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1963/press.html |title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1963 – Presentation Speech |access-date=August 16, 2005 |archive-date=November 12, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051112014727/http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1963/press.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Seferis was nominated in total four times for the Nobel Prize. [[Romilly Jenkins]] nominated him in 1955, [[T. S. Eliot|T.S. Eliot]] nominated him in 1961, [[Eyvind Johnson]] and [[Athanasius Trypanis|Athanasius Trypanis Trypanis]] both nominated in 1962, and it was the 1963 nomination again by Eyvind Johnson that won him the prize.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nomination Archive. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2024 |date=3 January 2024 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=12135}}</ref> Seferis was the first Greek to receive the prize (followed later by [[Odysseas Elytis]], who became a Nobel laureate in 1979). But in his acceptance speech, Seferis chose rather to emphasise his own humanist philosophy, concluding: "When on his way to Thebes Oedipus encountered the Sphinx, his answer to its riddle was: 'Man'. That simple word destroyed the monster. We have many monsters to destroy. Let us think of the answer of Oedipus."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1963/seferis-speech.html |title=Giorgos Seferis – Banquet Speech |access-date=August 16, 2005 |archive-date=January 8, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090108120402/http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1963/seferis-speech.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> While Seferis has sometimes been considered a nationalist poet, his 'Hellenism' had more to do with his identifying a unifying strand of [[humanism]] in the continuity of [[Culture of Greece|Greek culture]] and [[Greek literature|literature]]. The other five finalists for the prize that year were [[W. H. Auden]], [[Pablo Neruda]] (1971 winner), [[Samuel Beckett]] (1969 winner), [[Yukio Mishima]] and [[Aksel Sandemose]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/literature/1963.html |title=Candidates for the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature |publisher=Nobel Prize |year=2013 |access-date=January 3, 2014}}</ref>