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‘Nikos Kazantzakis and Latin America’ Conference in Argentina
“I want to see Latin America and I will not let death keep me from fulfilling this promise,” stated Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis in 1936, expressing a dream he was never able to fulfill.
However, the influence of his work reached...
Culture
Events in Commemoration of Greek Writer Kazantzakis
The International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis (DEFNK) is organizing events in South America and also in the Greek writer’s birthplace of Heraklion, Crete to welcome the new year.
On January 7, the Spanish translation of Kazantzakis’ “Odyssey” will...
Culture
Malaysia Honors Nikos Kazantzakis
A special event to celebrate the 130th anniversary since the day of the famous Greek Poet Nikos Kazantzakis’ birth as well as 25 years since the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis (ISFNK) was founded . This event,...
Greek News
Kazantzakis Translated Into Japanese
The works of Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco and Alexis Zorbas, will be translated into Japanese, as it was announced by the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis (ISFNK), which, on the occasion of the 25 years since...
Culture
Tokyo Honors Nikos Kazantzakis
The Greece-Japan Center in cooperation with the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis and the Japan-Greece Society have organized an event for May 14 in Tokyo to celebrate the 25 years of activity of the International Society to...
Greek News
Kazantzakis’ Friends Never Forget Him
The International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis is going to organize several commemorating events throughout 2013, to celebrate the 25 years of its founding, in the 116 countries where it works to promote the work of the renowned...
World
4th Conference on Nikos Kazantzakis’ Work in Seoul
The main topic of the fourth Korean Conference on Nikos Kazantzakis was his book titled “The Poor Man of God.” The conference was organized in Seoul by the Korean-Greek Association and the Hellenic Studies Department of the "Hankuk University...
events
Kazantzakis Museum Travels to China
The International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis and the people in charge for the Kazantzakis Museum of Crete decided to bring the Greek Museum together with the Museum of the Chinese and writer Lu Xun.
Lu Xun is as prolific...
Greek News
Latin America Honors Greek Writer Nikos Kazantzakis
On the occasion of the world general assembly of the International Society of Nikos Kazantzakis’ friends, in Montevideo, Uruguay, Latin America honors the work of the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis by organizing a series of events that began on...
Greek News
20,000 Copies of Kazantzakis’ “Ascetic” Distributed by Arab Newspapers
Twenty thousand copies of Nikos Kazantzakis’ essay “Ascetic”, translated by Saved Ahmad ali Bilal, titled “Sufism – Saviors of God”, was freely distributed by “Asafir” newspaper in Lebanon, “Al mada” and “Al ittihad” in Iraq, “Al bayan” of the...
Greek News
Fight to save Nikos Kazantzakis’ works
More than 2.000 thousand prominent personalities from 69 countries - including many university professors, writers, artists, local authorities, ambassadors of Hellenism, etc - have signed an open letter from the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis, aiming towards...
Ancient Greece
Greece and China: The Wisdom of Ancient Civilizations
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Chinese culture belongs to one of the oldest civilizations, as does Greek culture, and Confucian teachings have been regarded as providing the definitive morality that underpins Chinese mentality and behavior, regardless of any religious background.
By Steve Bakalis
“The values of...
Media
Overlooked Book Becomes Bestseller Due to Viral TikTok Video
"Stone Maidens," a book written by Lloyd Devereux Richards in 2012, made its way to the top of the best-seller list after his daughter's TikTok video went viral, sparking a surge in sales that catapulted the book to the...
Diaspora
La Griega (The Greek) Silvina Batakis Becomes Argentina’s Finance Minister
Silvina Batakis, nicknamed La Griega ("the Greek"), a leftist economist of Greek descent, was appointed Finance Minister in Argentina on Sunday, a day after the abrupt resignation of Martín Guzmán.
Batakis will be responsible for managing an economy burdened with...
Art
Uruguay: The Little South American Country with Many Philhellenes
Statue of Socrates in front of National Library
One can say that Uruguay is a country of philhellenes, as out of the 3,500,000 million people living there, at least 6,000 people speak fluent Greek as if it is their mother...