# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:00:39.729Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Crete in 1883, Kazantzakis moved through journalism, politics, poetry, and philosophy before the novels arrived. Zorba the Greek appeared in 1946, then Christ Recrucified, Captain Michalis, and in 1955 The Last Temptation of Christ — a vision of divinity wrestling with flesh that would ignite controversy for decades. Between novels he translated the Divine Comedy, Nietzsche, Darwin, and Homer into modern Greek. Hollywood made Zorba in 1964 and Scorsese made Last Temptation in 1988, carrying his name beyond the Greek-speaking world. He died in 1957, nominated for the Nobel in nine different years, never awarded, now towering over modern Greek letters.