Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957)
Author of Zorba the Greek
About the Author
This distinguished novelist, poet, and translator was born in Crete and educated in Athens, Germany, Italy, and Paris, where he studied philosophy. He found time to write some 30 novels, plays, and books on philosophy, to serve his government, and to travel widely. He ran the Greek ministry of show more welfare from 1919 to 1921 and was minister of state briefly in 1945. A political activist, he spent his last years in France and died in Germany. Kazantzakis's character Zorba has been called "one of the great characters of modern fiction," in a novel that "reflects Greek exhilaration at its best" (TLS). A film version of 1965, starring Anthony Quinn, made Kazantzakis widely known in the West. Intensely religious, he imbued his novels with the passion of his own restless spirit, "torn between the active and the contemplative, between the sensual and the aesthetic, between nihilism and commitment" (Columbia Encyclopedia). Judas, the hero of The Last Temptation of Christ (1951) is asked by Christ to betray him so that he can fulfill his mission through the crucifixion. For this book Kazantzakis was excommunicated from the Greek Orthodox Church. The Fratricides, Kazantzakis's last novel, portrays yet another religious hero, a priest caught between Communists and Royalists in the Greek Civil War. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Nikos Kazantzakis
Νίκος Καζαντζάκης 12 copies
Ιστορία της ρωσικής λογοτεχνίας 5 copies
פאפא יאנארוס 4 copies
Constantino Paleólogo 4 copies
Obras selectas Tomo I - Toda-Raba, Cristo nuevamente crucificado, Libertad o muerte, El pobre de Asís (1962) 3 copies
Θέατρο 3 copies
Commedia : tragedia in un atto 2 copies
Κριτικές 2 copies
Δάντης / Η Θεία Κωμωδία / Τόμος Β 2 copies
Τερτσίνες 2 copies
Udhëtim në Malin e Shenjtë 2 copies
Obras selectas II: novelas-teatro-viajes (El jardin de las rocas ; Vida y hechos de Alexis Zorba ; Teseo ; Melisa ; Del… (1962) 2 copies
Zorba the Greek 2 copies
Ὁ τελευταῖος… 1 copy
Μαχάτμα Γκάντι 1 copy
De dorpsnotabelen 1 copy
සෝර්බා නම් ග්රීකයා 1 copy
OBRAS SELECTAS. 3 vols. I. Novelas: Prólogo, por Fernando Gutiérrez. TODA-RABA / CRISTO NUEVAMENTE… (1972) 1 copy
The Terrestrial Gospel of Nikos Kazantzakis (Revised edition): Will the Humans Be Saviors of the Earth? (2014) 1 copy
Kazantzakis Nikos 1 copy
Zorba the Greek 1 copy
OBRAS SELECTAS II 1 copy
TESEO 1 copy
Akinek meg kell halnia 1 copy
Fratricizii 1 copy
Hristos rastignit din nou 1 copy
Ο Καπετάν Μιχάλης / Τόμος Α 1 copy
Ο Καπετάν Μιχάλης / Τόμος Β 1 copy
זורבה היווני 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Kazantzakis, Nikos
- Other names
- KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos
- Birthdate
- 1883-02-18
- Date of death
- 1957-10-26
- Burial location
- Upon the wall of the Martinego Bastion, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Greek
- Country (for map)
- Greece
- Birthplace
- Kandiye, Crete, Ottoman Empire (Now Heraklion, Crete, Greece)
- Place of death
- Freiburg, Germany
- Cause of death
- leukemia
- Places of residence
- Heraklion, Crete, Greece (birth)
Athens, Greece
Paris, France
Freiburg, Germany (death)
Antibes, France - Education
- University of Athens (JD|1906)
University of Paris (DrE|1909) - Occupations
- novelist
minister in Greek government
essayist
travel writer
playwright
translator - Relationships
- Kazantzakis, Helen (wife)
- Awards and honors
- International Peace Award (1956)
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The lead-off article to start the discussion in The Arresting Life & Writings Of Nikos Kazantzakis (December 2012)
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