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Nikos Kazantzakis
(1883 - 1957)

Category: Cretan, Greek Literature

Born: February 18, 1883
Megalokastro (now IrУЁklion), Crete (Greece)

Died: October 26, 1957
Freiburg, Germany

Related authors:
Albert Camus

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2/18/1883		Nikos Kazantzakis and Zorba On this day in 1883 Nikos Kazantzakis was born, in Heraklion, Crete. Kazantzakis was a philosopher, a doctor of laws, a politician, a translator of Dante, and a prolific writer in all genres (including a 33,333 line sequel to the Odyssey) but his greatest fame comes from Zorba the Greek, a novel which rejects intellectualism for the simple life.

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The Last Temptation of Christ fiction
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel by Nikos Kazantzakis, Kimon Friar (Photographer) poetry
Zorba the Greek fiction

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