Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis ( ; 2 March (OS 18 February) 188326 October 1957) was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher. He is considered by many people to be one of the greatest writers of modern Greek literature. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in nine different years. He remains the Greek author whose work has been translated in most languages worldwide.

Kazantzakis' works include Zorba the Greek (published in 1946 as Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas), Christ Recrucified (1948) and The Last Temptation of Christ (1955). He also wrote theatrical plays, travel books, memoirs, and essays about philosophy. He became famous in the English-speaking world thanks to the movies Zorba the Greek (1964) and The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), that were based on his books of the same titles.

He also translated a number of famous works into Modern Greek, such as the Divine Comedy, Thus Spoke Zarathustra and On the Origin of Species. He wrote Modern Greek editions of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

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 The Nikos Kazantzakis Museum, Crete
 The Nikos Kazantzakis Pages at the Historical Museum of Crete 
 Iran to pay homage to Greek author Kazantzakis – Tehran Times, 10 April 2008 
 Society of Nikos Kazantzakis friends 
 Kazantzakis museum
 Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes


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