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Kazantzakis Event Unites People Across Europe

By Heini-Sofia Alavuo Nikos Kazantzakis may be one of Greece's most well-known exports, particularly for his 1946 novel, Zorba the Greek. Even in the far north of Europe, his legacy is debated, enjoyed and celebrated. The Union of Finnish-Greek Societies, the Finnish-Greek...

Interview with Actor and Stand-Up Comedian Demetris Yiorkatzis

We spoke with Demetris Yiorkatzis, an up and coming Cypriot actor and stand-up comedian who recently moved to Los Angeles to try his luck in Hollywood. He opened up about his reasons for leaving Cyprus, what it's like getting his start...

Famous Chilean Professor on Greek Culture

  The famous Chilean professor, Miguel Castillo Didier in a recent interview talked about the importance of Greek culture. Didier stated that Greece, although it is a small country has given the world important poets and writers such as Kazantakis, Seferis,...

Kazantzakis Award Winners Named

The International Award named after the acclaimed late Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis will be awarded to Maria Hadjiapostolou, theologist, and Marta Silvia Dios Sanz of Argentina, a doctoral candidate at the University of Peloponnese in Athens, Greece. The International Society...

Cretans of Belgium Mark 100th

A series of events that will last for a whole month are scheduled to be held in Brussels by the Cretan Association of Belgium with the participation of the municipality of Heraklion and the local committee of Friends of...

International Award Named For Kazantzakis

"We managed to bring new people, communities and regions that had no idea  of who Nikos Kazantzakis is, in contact with a Greek poet and also gave them the opportunity to discover Greece, Chairman of the Steering Committee of...

Metal Busts of Kazantzakis, El Greco Stolen

Scavengers roaming Greek streets and even tearing apart buildings in search of copper – in one case trying to take down an entire bridge – have now claimed the bronze busts of famed Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis and renowned...

Kazantzakis’ Christ Recrucified in Toronto

One of the major Greek cultural events in years, the theatrical production of  He Who Must Die, will be performed in Richmond Hill, Ontario on Jan. 4-6, 2013. Based on Nikos Kazantzakis' Christ Re-crucified, this powerful dramatic play will be...

Greece Promotes Itself in Buenos Aires

The second annual academic meeting of the Greek Cultural Center in Buenos Aires will be called The Influence of Greece and of Greek Culture in the Arts and Science. It is being held in collaboration with the university Belgrano, under...

“Zorba the Greek” Translated into Persian

"Zorba the Greek" a novel written by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, first published in 1946, is now translated into Persian by Mahmoud Mosahab. It accounts the life of a young Greek man who tries to distance the...