Greek writer. His works include the poem I Odysseia/The Odyssey (1938), which continues Homer's Odyssey, and the novels Zorba the Greek (1946), Christ Recrucified (1948), The Greek Passion, and The Last Temptation of Christ (both 1951). Zorba the Greek was filmed in 1964 and The Last Temptation of Christ (controversially) in 1988.