Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek Νίκος Καζαντζάκης February 18, 1883, Heraklion, Crete - October 26, 1957, Freiburg, Germany) was a Greek novelist, poet, playwriter and thinker. Arguably the most important Greek writer and philosopher of the 20th century, he acquired wide fame after Michael Cacoyannis made his novel Zorba the Greek (Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά) into a film in 1964. He is the most translated contemporary Greek author.

Bibliography

• The Cretan Glance, The World and Art of Nikos Kazantzakis, Morton P. Levitt, Ohio State University Press, Columbus, OH, 1980.
• Kazantzakis: The Politics of Salvation, James F. Lea, foreward by Helen Kazantzakis, University of Alabama Press, 1979.
• Creative Destruction: Nikos Kazantzakis and the Literature of Responsibility, Lewis Owens, Mercer University Press, 2003