Peter Bien

Peter Bien's translations of Nikos Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ appeared in 1960, of Saint Francis in 1962, Report to Greco in 1965, and Zorba the Greekin 2014. He also translated Stratis Myrivilis's Life in theTomb (1977), a poetry book by Myron Zolotakis (2023), and two poetry collections by S. S. Harkianakis (2013, 2021). His scholarly studies include L.P.Hartley(1963), KazantzakisandtheLinguisticRevolutioninGreekLiterature(1972), Three Generations of Greek Writers: Introductions to Cavafy, Kazantzakis, Ritsos(1983), Kazantzakis: Politics of theSpirit (2 vols., 1989 and 2007), andYannis Ritsos: Collected Studies & Translations (2011). He also collected, chose, and translated The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). A cofounder and past president of the Modern Greek Studies Association of America and Canada, he served as editor of the association's Journal of Modern Greek Studies from 1991 to 1999.