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

The filmmaker, who had been raised in a strict Catholic household in New York’s Little Italy and had in his prior films grappled with ideas of belief in a violent world, was obsessed with adapting Nikos Kazantzakis’ 1955 novel “The Last Temptation of Christ.”

From Los Angeles Times

Dafoe embraced the role of a most human Jesus in Scorsese’s controversial adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis’ novel.

From Los Angeles Times

“Widely known for rendering ‘Gone with the Wind’ into Vietnamese, Duong Tuong translated a huge range of world literature, from Roald Dahl’s ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ to Stefan Zweig’s ‘Letter from an Unknown Woman,’ to Alex Haley’s ‘Roots,’ to Nikos Kazantzakis’s ‘Zorba the Greek,’ ” Cam Nguyen, a lecturer at the department of South and Southeast Asian studies at the University of California, Berkeley, said in an email.

From New York Times

“The Last Temptation of Christ” Willem Dafoe is the man from Galilee in director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader’s powerful 1988 adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis’ controversial novel.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Xi, in an article in the Greek newspaper Kathimerini preceding his visit, wrote: “Confucius and Socrates are two masks that cover the same face: the brightest face of human logic,” borrowing a line from the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis.

From New York Times