George Seferis, born in Smyrna in 1900, received the 1963 Nobel Prize for Literature. A career diplomat for the Greek government, he published nine collections of poems and six books of prose, and is well known for his Greek translation of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. He died on September 20, 1971, in Athens. “Matthew Paschalis” is a moniker he used to describe himself in his writing.