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Nikos Kazantzakis ( Greek: Νίκος Καζαντζάκης [ˈnikos kazanˈd͡zacis]; 2 March ( OS 18 February) 1883 [2] – 26 October 1957) was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher.
Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek: Νίκος Καζαντζάκης [ˈnikos kazanˈd͡zacis]; 2 March (OS 18 February) 1883 – 26 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.
Níkos Kazantzákis (born Feb. 18, 1883, Iráklion, Crete, Ottoman Empire [now in Greece]—died Oct. 26, 1957, Freiburg im Breisgau, W.Ger.) was a Greek writer whose prolific output and wide variety of work represent a major contribution to modern Greek literature.
Feb 18, 2024 · Nikos Kazantzakis is considered by many the greatest Greek writer of the 20th century, and his books have been translated more so than any of his contemporaries. The Cretan man’s literary genius was recognized posthumously after his book Zorba the Greek was created into an award winning film in 1964.
Nikos Kazantzakis has 175 books on Goodreads with 278371 ratings. Nikos Kazantzakis’s most popular book is Zorba the Greek.
May 11, 2018 · Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis is best remembered as the author of Zorba the Greek (1946), The Last Temptation of Christ (1951), and other philosophical novels in which he explored the spiritual and intellectual anguish of modern humanity.
Zorba the Greek (Greek: Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά, Víos kai Politeía tou Aléxē Zorbá, Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas) is a novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis, first published in 1946. It is the tale of a young Greek intellectual who ventures to escape his bookish life with the aid of the boisterous ...
Biography. Nikos Kazantzakis was born in Megalokastro (now Heraklion, Crete) in 1883, when under Turkish rule. His father was a farmer. The family moved to Naxos when Kazantzakis was a teenager and he attended a Franciscan school where he learned French and Italian.
Nikos Kazantzakis | An exploration of his life and works. The writings and philosophy of Nikos Kazantzakis feel as poignant today as they did during his life in the first half of the twentieth century.
Oct 26, 2019 · Nikos Kazantzakis was Greece’s most prolific writer and he remains one of the most famous Greek citizens to have ever lived. A writer of dozens of novels, poems, plays and short stories, his works have been translated into practically every written language on the planet.
