Kazantzakis

Cultural organization NEON presents "Flying Over the Abyss," an exhibition of works at the Athens Conservatory by local and international artists influenced and inspired by "Ascesis: The Saviors of Gods," a series of spiritual exercises penned by Nikos Kazantzakis. The acclaimed Cretan author's original manuscript is also on display.

The Greek Police on Monday said it has dismantled an international criminal organization that helped smuggle undocumented migrants from Turkey into Central and Northern Europe via Iraklio's Nikos Kazantzakis Airport on the island of Crete.

After amassing an amazing number of festival awards, director Chris Moraitis’ “Pet”  is  an early and qualifying Oscar contender for an official 2017 nomination in the short film category. It will be the first Greek short to ever be nominated.

Five bronze busts of eminent figures of the arts, politics and letters have been wrenched off their marble pedestals and stolen in two operations in the Writers' Park of the Athens Cultural Center, bringing the total of looted statues in the open-air gallery to eight.

Soprano Marimel Chrissi and mezzo soprano Lilian Tsatsaroni will perform Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater" at the Idiomelo cultural center in Athens on Wednesday, April 27. The soloists will be accompanied by pianist Dimitra Kakaki, while Manolis Giourgos and Georgia Deligiannopoulou will read excerpts from "Ascesis: The Saviors of God," penned by Nikos Kazantzakis.

Giorgos Stanisakis is a tireless globetrotter but it’s not business or leisure that has taken him to more than 90 countries in the past 27 years; it’s his passion for the celebrated Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis and his mission, as president of the International Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis Society, to make the writer’s work known all around the world.

British Airways returned to Herakleion, Crete, after thirty years. A warm waiting was in store for the first British Airways flight carrying 120 passengers to Nikos Kazantzakis airport at 1 p.m. on Sunday. The tourists were welcomed with traditional Cretan food and drinks.

The literary masterpieces of Nikos Kazantzakis (Captain Michalis, The Rock Garden, Zorba the Greek) are a testament to the anguish of his proud spirit, from his deepest life experiences, the heat of emotion, the world's blinding phantasmagoria, to his extreme decisions and his reflection on man's destiny.