George Zorbas

George Zorbas
Γεώργιoς Ζορμπάς
The grave of Zorbas in Skopje
Born
Georgios Zorbas

1865[1]
DiedSeptember 16, 1941(1941-09-16) (aged 75–76)
OccupationMiner

Georgios Zorbas (Greek: Γεώργιoς Ζορμπάς; 1865 – September 16, 1941) was a Greek miner upon whom Nikos Kazantzakis based Alexis Zorbas, the protagonist of his 1946 novel Zorba the Greek.[2]

  1. ^ Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien, The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis, Princeton University Press, 2012, ISBN 0691147027, p. 66.
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