George Zorbas

George Zorbas

Giorgis Zorbas (c. 1867–1942) (Greek: Γιώργης Ζορμπάς) was a miner from West Macedonia, Greece, upon whom Nikos Kazantzakis based his fictional Alexis Zorbas, the protagonist of his novel Zorba the Greek (1946).

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