Captain Michalis is a 1953 novel by the Greek writer
Nikos Kazantzakis. It is known as
Freedom and Death in the United Kingdom. The writer was influenced by his early years on the island of
Crete and uses explicit
Cretan Greek words and the
Cretan idiom in a way that preserves it untouched. It is one of the most widely read books of
modern Greek literature which has been translated and published in several languages.