Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher, best known for novels such as Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ. Alongside those, he wrote plays, travel books, memoirs and philosophical essays, and Freedom or Death follows the Cretan uprising of 1889. Kazantzakis was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times and remains the most translated Greek author worldwide. He died in 1957.