Kazantzakis

American  

[kaz-uhn-zak-is, kah-zuhn-zah-kis, kah-zahn-dzah-kees] / ˌkæz ənˈzæk ɪs, ˌkɑ zənˈzɑ kɪs, ˌkɑ zɑnˈdzɑ kis /

noun

1. Nikos 1883–1957, Greek poet and novelist.

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Kazantzakis British  

/ kazanˈdzakis /

noun

1. Nikos (ˈnikɔs). 1885–1957, Greek novelist, poet, and dramatist, noted esp for his novels Zorba the Greek (1946) and Christ Recrucified (1954) and his epic poem The Odyssey (1938).

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Example Sentences

Based on the 1955 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, the Jesus in “Temptation” is a fallible carpenter.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2018

A passion project, religious in nature, based on a novel; delays, funding difficulties and reluctance among studio executives: Such was “The Last Temptation of Christ,” his adaptation of the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2016

She also explained the show’s title, which is taken from the writings of the Greek philosopher Nikos Kazantzakis, who saw life as a “luminous interval.”

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2010

This early book of aphorisms shows the intense spiritual longing of modern Greece's most noted writer; for Humanist Kazantzakis, God was, essentially, the search for God.

From Time Magazine Archive

One who did not was the great Greek novelist Nikos Kazantzakis, who toured Soviet Russia in the 1920s and put down his impressions in novelistic form.

From Time Magazine Archive