George Zorbas | |
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| Γεώργιoς Ζορμπάς | |
 The grave of Zorbas in Skopje | |
| Born | Georgios Zorbas 1865[1] |
| Died | September 16, 1941 (aged 75–76) |
| Occupation | Miner |
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]
- ^ Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien, The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis, Princeton University Press, 2012, ISBN 0691147027, p. 66.
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