Famous Cretan

Nikos  Kazantzakis
Born	18 February 1883 Kandiye, Crete, Ottoman Empire (now Heraklion, Greece)
Died	26 October 1957 (aged 74) Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany (now Germany)
Occupation	Poet, novelist, essayist, travel writer, philosopher, playwright, journalist, translator
Nationality	Greek
Education	University of Athens (1902–1906; LL.D., 1906)[1] University of Paris (1907–1909; Dr, 1909)[1]
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El Greco
Portrait of a Man (presumed self-portrait of El Greco), c. 1595–1600, oil on canvas, 52.7 × 46.7 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, United States[1]
Born	Doménikos Theotokópoulos1541Heraklion, Crete
Died	7 April 1614 (aged 72–73)Toledo, Spain
Nationality	Greek
Known for	Painting, sculpture and architecture
Notable work	El Expolio (1577–1579)The Assumption of the Virgin(1577–1579)The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (1586–1588)View of Toledo (1596–1600)Opening of the Fifth Seal(1608–1614)
Movement	Mannerism

Odysseas Elytis
Odysseas Elytis in 1974
Born	2 November 1911 Heraklion, Greece (then in the Republic of Crete)
Died	18 March 1996 (aged 84) Athens, Greece
Occupation	Poet
Nationality	Greek
Alma mater	University of Athens (no degree)[1]
Literary movement	Romantic modernism, Generation of the '30s[2]
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Literature 1979
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