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Nikos Kazantzakis

1883 - 1957

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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. Widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in nine different years, and remains the most translated Greek author worldwide. Kazantzakis's novels included Zorba the Greek (published in 1946 as Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas), Christ Recrucified (1948), Captain Michalis (1950, translated as Freedom or Death), and The Last Temptation of Christ (1955). He also wrote plays, travel books, memoirs, and philosophical essays, such as The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikos Kazantzakis is the 256th most popular writer (down from 240th in 2019), the 66th most popular biography from Greece (up from 71st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Greek Writer.

Nikos Kazantzakis is most famous for his novel Zorba the Greek.

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Among writers, Nikos Kazantzakis ranks 256 out of 7,302. Before him are Osamu Dazai, Grazia Deledda, Henrik Pontoppidan, Dario Fo, Johanna Spyri, and Joseph Heller. After him are Jaroslav Hašek, J. K. Rowling, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Primo Levi, Herta Müller, and Dale Carnegie.

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Among people born in 1883, Nikos Kazantzakis ranks 10. Before him are Coco Chanel, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Jaspers, Anton Webern, Walter Gropius, and Victor Francis Hess. After him are Jaroslav Hašek, Joseph Schumpeter, Lev Kamenev, Norman Haworth, Otto Heinrich Warburg, and Grigory Zinoviev. Among people deceased in 1957, Nikos Kazantzakis ranks 10. Before him are John von Neumann, Diego Rivera, Miklós Horthy, Christian Dior, Humphrey Bogart, and Johannes Stark. After him are Constantin Brâncuși, Walther Bothe, Gerty Cori, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Arturo Toscanini, and Wilhelm Reich.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Nikos Kazantzakis ranks 66 out of 1,024. Before him are Constantine II of Greece (1940), Pope Eleutherius (171), Ptolemy II Philadelphus (-308), Ptolemy III Euergetes (-284), Pyrrho (-365), and Polykleitos (-450). After him are Alcaeus of Mytilene (-620), Epaminondas (-418), Pope Dionysius (200), Demetrius of Thessaloniki (270), Isocrates (-436), and Constantine I of Greece (1868).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Nikos Kazantzakis ranks 9. Before him are Aristophanes (-448), Euripides (-480), Aeschylus (-525), Sappho (-630), Pindar (-517), and Menander (-342). After him are Alcaeus of Mytilene (-620), Arion (-700), Archilochus (-680), Simonides of Ceos (-556), Demetrius Vikelas (1835), and Phaedrus (-20).

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