Along with the multitude of his readers, listeners, fans and friends, the Nikos Kazantzakis Museum mourns the death of Nikos Psilakis. Nikos Psilakis was a journalist, researcher, writer, photographer and intellectual, but above all a multifaceted personality. With his monumental work on folk rituals and gastronomy, Cretan mythology, the monasteries of Crete and much more, he contributed greatly to the preservation and promotion of Cretan and Greek culture in general. His work established him as a leading scholar of Cretan folklore.
Nikos Psilakis was honoured, among other things, with the "Nikos Kazantzakis" award of the Municipality of Heraklion for his contribution to Letters. He was a good friend of the Nikos Kazantzakis Museum, actively participating in its various events, the most notable being the coordination of the Public Reading of the book "Traveling Spain" at the Basilica of St. Mark's of Heraklion in 2016 as part of the "Traveling Spain" Festival and his presentation at the International Scientific Conference "Nikos Kazantzakis and Cretan Culture" of the Kazantzakis Museum in 2007 entitled "Nikos Kazantzakis and Cretan Culture": "Kazantzakis in the "vortex" of evolutionary theory: from Crete to Africa, cultural intersections and ethnological heraldry".
The Nikos Kazantzakis Museum expresses its sincere condolences to his wife Maria, his daughter Effie and his loved ones. We wish his soul to rest in the Light!
