bio notes:
born: 11/2/1911
died: 3/18/1996
born as: Odysseus Alepoudhelis
nationality: Greece

Greek poet and winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature. Born the scion of a prosperous Cretan family, he abandoned the family name as a young man in order to dissociate his writing from the family soap business. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature